Thursday, August 13, 2009

distributed applications

internet is all about pushing and pulling information from different places at different times. the basic idea behind this are the URL and the HTTP protocol. Also, the network gets encapsulated by the cloud concept.
An interesting variation on this seems the CouchDB project.
Here is an interesting video:
CouchDB overview

J. Chris Anderson often uses the REST concept and that he has been learning internet programming by "view source" HTML and later rails.

Here is a short tutorial on REST maybe interesting to look into one day:

PHP rest tutorial from yahoo

Sunday, August 09, 2009

webapp with hobo

Hobo sounds similar to holo and it makes me remember starship Enterprise. In any case, hobo is also a framework for making CRUD application with Rails and it helped me to deploy a first experiment of an app to Heroku: electric-moon-35.heroku.com

Some ressources were helpful for learning how to do this:
* First the the heroku quickstart docs
* The docs about debugging with Heroku
* A message in a mail server on problems with plugins and installing gems: NoMethodError undefined method
* That there exists something like and authentication problems with Herokugardens
* The increasingly popular GIT version control and GIT version control