http://blog.lunatech.com/2009/02/03/what-every-web-developer-must-know-about-url-encoding
This article describes common misconceptions about Uniform Resource Locator (URL) encoding, then attempts to clarify URL encoding for HTTP, before presenting frequent problems and their solutions. While this article is not specific to any programming language, we illustrate the problems in Java) and finish by explaining how to fix URL encoding problems in Java, and in a web application at several levels.
http://spf13.com/post/soap-vs-rest
There is some good discussion in the comments of this post.
PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG
http://wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git
From the post:
Complex systems like Git become much easier to understand once you figure out how they really work. The goal of this post is to shed some light on how Git works under the hood. We’re going to take a look at some of Git’s core concepts including its basic object storage, how commits work, how branches and tags work, and we’ll look at the different kinds of merging in Git including the much-feared rebase. Hopefully at the end of it all, you’ll have a solid understanding of these concepts and will be able to use some of Git’s more advanced features with confidence.
It’s worth noting at this point that this guide is not intended to be a beginner’s introduction to Git. This guide was written for people who already use Git, but would like to better understand it by taking a peek under the hood, and learn a few neat tricks along the way.
The logstash mascot has to be a contender for best logo for an open source project ever.
I have long been a web content management system nerd and Siteleaf seems like a decent little CMS, especially if you need to provide a CMS for clients.
http://www.sparkjava.com/ (via)
Looks like another option for implementing very basic REST micro services.
pjax loads html from your server into the current page without a full page load. It’s ajax with real permalinks, page titles, and a working back button that fully degrades.
The idea is you can’t tell the difference between pjax page loads and normal page loads. On complicated sites, browsing just “feels faster.”
