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It is getting a little late tonight, so I will probably ask more questions than I answer here. (For those just catching up, this is the continuation of part 4 in a series of articles on the development of a new web application.)
Since this project is evolving into something in which the API itself [...]

Thanks to some very insightful comments on earlier articles in ths series, things are definitely beginning to to coalesce regarding the API. In particular the questions about REST and the friends/groups model really helps nail down some important details early on in the development process. And I encourage other people to feel comfortable [...]

Continuing where we left off yesterday in part 2 on this series about building a new web software application, I wanted to take a moment to discuss part of the data model. In particular, I wanted to cover the user model, and how it will impact this application.
Roughly, we should know the following about [...]

As I started to explain in part 1 of this series, I am in the planning stages of building a new web application. And rather than build it first and then release it with some fanfare, I’ve decided to publish my thoughts and notes along the way. The odds of finishing the application [...]

About six months ago I was juggling a half dozen ideas in my head and I decided that I needed to write them down to help manage them. My preference was to do it on the computer, rather than on paper, as my handwriting isn’t that great and it would be useful to be [...]

When did Amazon Prime launch, anyway? Mid-February?
I was cleaning out the empty boxes from my office yesterday and piling them up in the hall. Here’s what they amounted to:

Yikes. And that’s just the ones I must have opened here and not brought directly home. I think Amazon is breaking even on [...]

The AWS OpenSearch Engine on unto.net has a few new features and a slightly different default behavior.

The AWS OpenSearch Engine now supports a “style” parameter that allows the user to customize the way the product search results are displayed. This was added because different uses of the search engine require different ways of reading [...]