links for 2007-04-26

April 26, 2007 | Filed by Marius under: general

Spam as psychological help

April 15, 2007 | Filed by Marius under: general

Do you feel down today? Broken? Unhappy with your life website? Just check you spam comments :D

Look what comments I had on one of my blogs spam filter today:

  • Nice design!
  • Cool}Cool!
  • Pretty nice site!
  • Brilliant site!
  • Super site!
  • Thanks for your work!
  • Added to bookmark, thanks!
  • Good site!
  • (man! isn’t it obvious my site is brilliant, not just good? this one pisse dme off)
  • Great site!
  • It’s very good site, thanks!
  • (it’s very good for me too, thanks!)
  • Unreal design, cool!
  • (now you’re talking!  yeah! I rule!)
  • Thanks for helping!
  • (you’re welcome)
  • Fantastic design!
  • Best wishes to WM of this site!
  • (happy easter to you too)
  • Cool design, great info!
  • [repeat this a couple (100) of times]

Sorry if I forgot to name and link all these gentle persons, must be my ego;)

REST vs SOA imaginary discussion

| Filed by Marius under: web dev, semantics
I found a great reading about the REST vs SOA issue. Duncan Cragg presents an imaginary dialogue with an imaginary eBay
Architect
, where they compare doing enterprise integration with a REST approach vs their current API.
Getting Data | The REST Dialogues

In an exclusive nine-part dialogue with an imaginary eBay
Architect
, we present an accessible discussion of the
REST vs. SOA issue.

Although eBay have what they call a ‘REST’ interface, it is, in
fact, a
STREST
interface, and only works for one of the many function calls
that they make available via SOAP (GetSearchResults).

In this dialogue series,
I argue the case for eBay to adopt a truly REST approach to
their integration API.

Unit, integration and gray tests

| Filed by Marius under: agile

Scott Bellware has a great post about what makes an unit test and what an integration test.

…it isn’t a unit test if:
  • It talks to the database
  • It communicates across the network
  • It touches the file system
  • It can’t run at the same time as any of your other unit tests
  • You have to do special things to your environment (such as editing config files) to run it.

Seems like a good idea to separate units and integration tests using these criteria and optimize then based on speed and isolation possibilities.

      


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