In part 1 of this series, I laid out my goals for a RESTful chess service, based on the RESTful Web Services book from the O’Reilly series. The authors present a procedure for designing services, the first two of which…
I recently got a copy of RESTful Web Services, a book in the O’Reilly series that I read some time ago. I first read it when I was introduced to REST as an architectural style. It helped me get my…
A friend of mine is learning JavaScript and jQuery and I recently helped her out with a problem she was having. She wanted to mouse over an image and have another <div/> appear, giving information about the image. Okay, nothing…
When using MarkLogic Server, you’ll sometimes need to execute a command against a different database than the one associated with your application. Enter the xdmp:eval() function. eval() lets you execute any code you can put into a string. Among its…
There are other posts out there describing how to install MarkLogic Server on Ubuntu versions 9.04 and 8.10. This post will update these directions for Ubuntu 9.10 and go over the steps for upgrading from MarkLogic 4.1-2 to 4.1-4. It’s…
I came across an interesting little gotcha today while working with CSS’ adjacent sibling selectors. First, a quick intro, in case you’re not familiar with them. <div class=”content”> <h1>Big News</h1> <p>Intro paragraph.</p> <p>Meaningless drivel</p> </div> Sibling selectors let you apply…
When you start a project, one of the early choices you need to make is what technologies to use. You use tools that will support your efforts, not get in your way. For Trovz.com, I went with PHP on the…
While I’m preparing my next post, here’s a little something to chew on: Scripting languages allow much obfuscation but the job gets done. Haiku is easy: 5-7-5 syllables. Let’s see yours in the comments.