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Re: Eric Moritz - Hydra lite

ericmoritz — Mon, 18 May 2015 22:23:37 -0000

In all honesty, I did argue to ignore the `@context` of JSON-LD for Hydra Lite. I made it optional and I would think that folks in the market for hypermedia are not in the market for Linked Data just yet. As valuable as Linked Data is, it is intimidating to people who don't understand it's value.

My goal was to give people just enough JSON-LD and Hydra to get them started without too much intimidation. I feel like we're at the transition in hypermedia services where we were transitioning from FTP to HTML. i.e. static unlinked documents vs linked documents. We're just learning about the value of equivalent of <a> tags. I bet in a years time we'll be so bored with links in JSON because they're used everywhere.

Re: Eric Moritz - Hydra lite

ericmoritz — Mon, 18 May 2015 22:02:58 -0000

I think what I presented here would be the bare minimum you'd need to be able to describe the links in your service. There are a number of properties that lets you more specifically declare your operations, such as the `statusCode` property. Another thing I left out were Hydra's Collection classes.

These are a hydra standard way to describe a collection of members. This may be valuable for an automated client to have a common way to page through a collection.

One thing I realized that I left out were templated links. These are valuable if you have resources that take query parameters. See http://eric.themoritzfamily... for an example of a templated link.

If you're writing a service using JSON-LD, I'd love to get your opinion on my module I wrote to help write JSON-LD based services: https://www.npmjs.com/packa...

Re: Eric Moritz - Hydra lite

ericmoritz — Mon, 04 May 2015 10:40:48 -0000

Sorry, my intent wasn't to prove HAL better or worse than my proposal. If you find HAL valuable, use it. I presented HAL as a point of contrast, not to prove it worse than JSON-LD. My goal wasn't to dumb down JSON-LD but rather to pick a subset of JSON-LD that would have feature parity with HAL and other hypermedia standards.

While I am completely on board with the Linked Data movement and the benefits of disambiguation and providing shared vocabularies, many have argued that it is a solution looking for a problem. It is hard not to sound like a religious zealot when extolling the virtues of Linked Data. I saw this subset as a pragmatic use of JSON-LD that feels more natural to JSON developers and easier to apply to existing RESTful services.

HAL can be applied to existing services, but I see the whole _links/_embedded design problematic to extensibility which I mentioned in the article. In addition, existing services that already have embedded objects have to break backwards compatibility and move the embedded objects under the _embedded field or bloat the response by duplicating the object.

Re: Eric Moritz - Learning Python Logging

ericmoritz — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:49:43 -0000

You'll have to try this out but as I remember it; basicConfig serves as the default config for the root logger. Calling it twice will reconfigure it.

What I would suggest is have one logger in master.py called "master", i.e. log = logging.getLogger("master") and in slave.py a logger called "slave". In master.py configure the handler for "master" such that it logs to master.log and the handler for "slave" so that it logs to "slave.log" at level INFO and "slave_detailed.log" at level DEBUG.

You'll have to consult the logging docs on how to do that but should be easy to do.

Re: Eric Moritz - Learning Python Logging

ericmoritz — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:09:43 -0000

it's hard to say without seeing how you've configured logging. If you put your logging configuration code up on gists.github.com and I could take a look.

Re: Eric Moritz - Learning Python Logging

ericmoritz — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:40:22 -0000

Thank you. I was not sure if Python 3 changed the logging module so I specified Python 2 just in case.

I say that it goes against the "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." part of the Zen of Python in the fact that the proper way of using the logging module is not obvious at first.

Re: Eric Moritz - Books every self-taught computer scientist should read

ericmoritz — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:43:38 -0000

You are probably correct. The GoF book should be read. It is not on this list because I have not read it myself, though I am familiar with the common patterns.

Re: Eric Moritz - Books every self-taught computer scientist should read

ericmoritz — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:41:26 -0000

Fixed it. Thank you.

Re: Eric Moritz - Books every self-taught computer scientist should read

ericmoritz — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:04:07 -0000

C Programming Language is recommended not really to teach C but more to provide the needed knowledge for Mastering Algorithms in C and to some degree concepts in The Little Schemer. In defense of C, it is a good language to learn solely for it's legacy and it's influences. Obviously you can be a good programmer without knowing it but there is much to gain by learning it.

This is just my suggested reading list. These are books I think people *should* read, not books people must read.

Re: Eric Moritz - Books every self-taught computer scientist should read

ericmoritz — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:41:52 -0000

Perhaps I failed to convey this but my intent was not to give people the best books to learn C or Scheme but good books for teaching elementary fundamentals of computer programming. I feel that these books do a good job teaching the following: algorithms, data structures and problem deconstruction.

These are concepts that I believe are fundamental to our craft and is often overlooked by the Junior developers I have worked with that learned how to program on their own.

Re: Eric Moritz - Books every self-taught computer scientist should read

ericmoritz — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:23:04 -0000

I will admit that I need a Design for Dummies book but what problem are you seeing with my CSS? The code/content for this site is here: https://github.com/ericmori... I would be grateful if you would help me debug any problems you see by describing the issues.

Re: Eric Moritz - Books every self-taught computer scientist should read

ericmoritz — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:18:19 -0000

I prefer this explanation: http://theoatmeal.com/comic...

I know the difference between it's and its. That was just bad proof reading on my part.

Re: Eric Moritz - Books every self-taught computer scientist should read

ericmoritz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:12:56 -0000

I am 32 and have been programming professionally since I graduated high school at 18 and programming as a hobby starting with BASIC on TI-99/4A when I was 6.

As for how I taught this to myself, I started working on a Comp Sci degree after high school and let the greed of the first dot com bubble convince me to drop out and make a good salary without a degree. I've been working ever since trying to teach myself what I missed by dropping out by reading and by doing.

Re: Card Payment Sytems and the CAP Theorem

ericmoritz — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:44:53 -0000

Credit Card systems are a massively distributed eventually consistent system. When you use your card at a store, the purchase isn't reconciled until the merchant batches out the transaction and it's sent to your bank. It works like an Op-based CRDT basically.

Re: IRL: Nexus One, Sansa Clip Zip, DeLorme PN-60 and the HP TouchPad

ericmoritz — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:20:35 -0000

My trusty N1 has started to let me down as well. I am having the same GPS lock issue as well as a number of hardware failings: volume down is breaking, the headphone jack right channel is iffy, bluetooth just stopped functioning yesterday. I think that's it.

Re: Tutorial: Todo-List Application

ericmoritz — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:46:40 -0000

Why are you using LIKE instead of = in your SQL statements?

Re: The New SingleNode NoSQL Database

ericmoritz — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:07:06 -0000

Wow, does this mean that Javascript, Ruby, and Python all come with their own NoSQL solutions built-in?

Re: Alex Young: We Are The App Store

ericmoritz — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:09:01 -0000

I don't think this is Apple's motivation at all. At first they wanted to promote HTML5 web apps instead of native apps; Now that they've stumbled onto this goldmine called the AppStore, they're milking every cent out of it.

I'm all for HTML5 apps, they work in both platforms. It's just a matter of time before companies
wise up and realized they just dedicated 6 months of their lead developer's time to develop a native
iPhone or iPad app where an HTML5 app would of sufficed and could have been built in
a sixth the time.

Re: Review: Shape-Shifting Travel Bag Divides Into 3 Pieces [VIDEO & PICS]

ericmoritz — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:07:05 -0000

while you're at reviewing luggage. Review Timbuk2's Checkpoint roller

Re: How would you change D-Link's Boxee Box?

ericmoritz — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:43:46 -0000

Make it so that I can watch the lastest videos from favorite apps in a row. You know, like a TV Channel. When I'm sitting on the couch, the last thing I want to do is click a hundred times to find something to watch.

Re: Evernote Competitor Catch.com Raises $7 Million

ericmoritz — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:25:23 -0000

I can't get in the habit of using evernote. I use a combination of catch.com and dropbox to do the job of evernote. catch for quick notes on my phone and Dropbox for more long term reference material. Evernote feels too cumbersome for either task. To each their own I suppose.

Re: Evernote Competitor Catch.com Raises $7 Million

ericmoritz — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:15:23 -0000

If I remember right, snaptic acquired 3banana, or vice-versa. They're now catch.com.

Re: Who has the best bagel in Knoxville?

ericmoritz — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:36:32 -0000

Brueggars is pretty good. I make my own every once in a while, it's pretty easy: http://hubpages.com/hub/Hom...

Re: Advantages of Riak over CouchBase

ericmoritz — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:58:35 -0000

Just don't use buckets in membase the same way you use buckets in Riak. We ended up taking locking up server with only 8 buckets in Membase because we thought they were as inexpensive as buckets are in Riak.

Re: Motorola Atrix 4G apparently priced at $150 by Costco, too

ericmoritz — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:12:35 -0000

Same here. AT&T is good. It's the folks in SF and NYC complaining