Belgium has a long tradition of beer making. According to Wikipedia, the country counts over 1700 beers of various styles including Trappist, Abbey, Saisons, Lambic, Gueuze, Fruit Beers, White, Double, Triple, Quadruple, etc. I thought it would be fun to build an app that lets users search and explore this list in different ways: by […]
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ForceServer: A Local Server to Streamline Salesforce OAuth and REST Development
Salesforce provides a REST API that makes it easy to access and manipulate Salesforce data from any application. To start using Salesforce OAuth and the REST APIs, you need to add a few components to your development environment: A Proxy Server to avoid cross-domain policy issues when invoking Salesforce REST services. (The Chatter API supports […]
Employee Directory Sample App with Ionic and Node.js
It has been six months since I posted the first version of the Employee Directory app built with Ionic and AngularJS. Ionic has been moving fast, and it was time for an update. Employee directory is a sample application that allows you to look up employees by name, view the details of an employee, call, […]
Creating a REST API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
I recently used Node.js, Express, and MongoDB to rewrite a RESTful API I had previously written in Java and PHP with MySQL (Java version, PHP version), and I thought I’d share the experience… Here is a quick guide showing how to build a RESTful API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. Installing Node.js Go to http://nodejs.org, […]
Backbone.js Wine Cellar Tutorial — Part 3: Deep Linking and Application States
UPDATE: I posted a “Postface” to this series with some lessons learned and an improved version of the app. Make sure you read it here. In Part 1 of this tutorial, we set up the basic infrastructure for the Wine Cellar application. In Part 2, we added the ability to create, update, and delete (CRUD) […]
Backbone.js Wine Cellar Tutorial — Part 2: CRUD
In Part 1 of this tutorial, we set up the basic infrastructure for the Wine Cellar application. The application so far is read-only: it allows you to retrieve a list of wines, and display the details of the wine you select. In this second installment, we will add the ability to create, update, and delete […]
Backbone.js Wine Cellar Tutorial — Part 1: Getting Started
One of the challenges when building nontrivial Web applications is that JavaScript’s non-directive nature can initially lead to a lack of structure in your code, or in other words, a lack of… backbone. JavaScript is often written as a litany of free-hanging and unrelated blocks of code, and it doesn’t take long before it becomes […]
RESTful services with jQuery, PHP and the Slim Framework
NOTE: This is the PHP version of this article and its companion app. A Java version is available here. I have been looking for a lightweight framework to build a RESTful API in PHP. There are a number of good options out there: Slim, Epiphany, Tonic, Recess, and Frapi to name a few. They all […]
RESTful services with jQuery and Java using JAX-RS and Jersey
NOTE: This is the Java version of this article and its companion app. A PHP version is available here. This is a more in depth version of my previous post on the same topic. The previous article only covered the HTTP GET method for building RESTful services. This article (and its new companion app) provides […]
Building RESTful Services with Java Using JAX-RS and Jersey — Sample Application
I’m working on a project that required a RESTful API implemented in Java. Jersey, the reference implementation for JAX-RS, made it easy to implement and deploy these services. I figured I’d share my sample application here. (more…)
