Marsh Gardiner earth2marsh

RPC vs REST

Here's a brief analysis of RPC vs. REST based on one person's opinion.

RPC
REST (URL-based)
- Contracts

Screencapture and animated gifs

I say "animated gif" but in reality I think it's irresponsible to be serving "real" GIF files to people now. You should be serving gfy's, gifv's, webm, mp4s, whatever. They're a fraction of the filesize making it easier for you to deliver high fidelity, full color animation very quickly, especially on bad mobile connections. (But I suppose if you're just doing this for small audiences (like bug reporting), then LICEcap is a good solution).

Capturing (Easy)

Launch quicktime player
do Screen recording

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

Format: 1A Host: http://blog.acme.com

Basic ACME Blog API

NOTE: This document is outdated. Refer to the actual API Blueprint examples.

Welcome to the ACME Blog API. This API provides access to the ACME Blog service.

	# Data Structures

	## Entity (object)
	An Entity is a URI-addressable resource that has properties and actions
	associated with it. It may contain sub-entities and navigational links.

	### Properties
	- class (array[string], optional)
	Describes the nature of an entity's content based on the current
	representation. Possible values are implementation-dependent and

	/*
	from @rem
	https://twitter.com/rem/status/729628084115247104
	*/
	@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

	@-moz-document domain("twitter.com") {
	div[data-component-term="user-recommendations"],
	div[data-component-term="trends"],
	.promoted-tweet,

	var sonos = require('sonos');
	var Scout = require('zetta-scout');
	var util = require('util');
	var SonosDriver = require('./sonos_driver');

	//We inherit from scout to get some Zetta functionality
	var SonosScout = module.exports = function() {
	Scout.call(this);
	};
	util.inherits(SonosScout, Scout);

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	"""
	This script is designed to generate a simple HTML file with _all_ of your
	Pinboard.in bookmarks.

	You should edit the `username`, `password`, `bookmark_filename`, and `tag`
	variables.

	Requirements:

	data:text/html,
	<style type="text/css">
	#e {
	position:absolute;
	top:0;
	right:0;
	bottom:0;
	left:0;
	font-size:16px;
	}