Upcase REST Iteration

A constraint of the REST specification. Basically states that responses from the server should include hyperlinks to any available resources and actions. For example a JSON response listing all products for an index page would also include hyperlinks to each product.

JavaScript Jabber Weekly iteration on testing APIs

This was a piece of advice about how to find an open source project to create. Find an aspect of the envrionment you work in that noone seems to pay enough attention to and then become the expert on it. This might sound relatively obvious but this line jumped out at me because it calls for focus and care. You not only figure out the need but focus on it and spend your time understanding it’s ins and outs. This is related to a blog post I read recently about mastering the domains that are central to your product.

upcase.com Weekly iteration on testing APIs

Ideally if you are interacting with the outside world either through APIs or outside gems you should be putting your connection to it into a wrapper or adapter class. This creates an internal API for the outside source you can control. So if you want to substitute the what is in the wrapper or if the outside API changes you have a central place to change or fix.

Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

This is a type of code smell. If you are trying to test a part or all of your program and you are having a lot of trouble it should be a warning sign that the code is either not well structured or you need to consider refactoring the portion that is giving you trouble.

upcase.com TDD Rails Trail

This is a short-hand rule or code smell in Rails to avoid putting too much responsibility in the controller. Any Model related code should go into the model. And if you have a lot of extra responsibility in a controller consider refactoring that responsiblity into another controller.

8th Light University Facing Failure

How your programs handles errors should be as well thought out as how you structure any other large part of your program. Errors are often forgotten or intermingled in the execution code. Making the program hard to reason and hard to update.

8th Light University Facing Failure

Ultimately this is related to separation of concerns. This imagines a program as a M&M With the center being what you want the code to do and the candy shell handling the connection outside world, this includes security, data access, and error handling.