I am working on a javascript library for Campfire’s JSON/XML API. Even before coding my first request/response path, I ran into the issue of authentication. Campfire uses basic authentication over https for security. The idea is that the combination of a user’s API key and his group’s Campfire url (person.campfirenow.com) would be enough for identification. [...]
Posted by: Rui
March 17, 2011 at 10:26 pm
As people have tried experimenting with fluent interfaces for everything, it was only a matter of time before javascript followed suit. A few weeks ago I became impressed with Soapi.js, a fluent interface for Stack Exchange. Today, I was absolutely blown away by the promise of jLinq. jLinq is exactly what it sounds like: LINQ [...]
Posted by: Rui
March 12, 2011 at 1:38 am
I spent most nights of last week writing Stack Addict, my Q&A viewer for Chrome. The idea came to me as I became more and more addicted to scouting for answerable questions on StackOverflow. I figured there had to be a better way of getting a jump on the competition than continuously refreshing the “javascript” [...]
Posted by: Rui
March 7, 2011 at 10:50 pm
