XSLT is easy, even for transforming JSON!
June 19, 2014 No Comments
Most developers I talk to will cringe if they hear the acronym XSLT. I suspect that reaction is derived from some past experience where they
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Please, no more generic hypermedia types
June 17, 2014 No Comments
This opinion has been stewing for a couple of years now, but following an excellent conversation I had with Ted Young the other evening at the API Craft
Self-descriptive, isn’t. Don’t assume anything.
June 13, 2014 No Comments
With the recent surge of interest in hypermedia APIs I am beginning to see the term “self-descriptive” thrown around quite frequently. Unfortunately, the meaning of
Returning raw JSON content from ASP.NET Web API
June 11, 2014 No Comments
In a previous post I talked about how to send raw JSON to a web API and consume it easily. This is a non-obvious process because ASP.NET
There is Unicode in your URL!
June 10, 2014 No Comments
In our Runscope HipChat room a few weeks ago, I was asked about Unicode encoding in URLs. After a quick sob about why I never get asked
Sharing Fiddler requests using Runscope
June 6, 2014 No Comments
Fiddler is an excellent tool that I have been using for many years to debug HTTP requests in local applications. However, one of the things that
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