Posting raw JSON to Web API
April 23, 2014 No Comments
I see questions almost weekly on StackOverflow where someone is trying to POST JSON and receive it as a string. The problem is that Web
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It’s time for a change, and more of the same.
April 18, 2014 No Comments
Starting next week, I will be joining the Runscope team. Runscope provides tools that help developers debug, test and monitor Web APIs. This is a company that
Caching is hard, draw me a picture–Updated
February 21, 2014 No Comments
This is my attempt to make the HTTPbis caching rules more accessible and hopefully shine a light on how powerful HTTP caching can be. I’ve
Web Standards Search Engine
January 9, 2014 No Comments
I always struggle to use the IETF and W3C web sites to find Web standards that I am looking for. Google and Bing work ok
Tavis.Link and dependencies
August 19, 2013 No Comments
I’m currently writing a bunch of media type parsers and have been struggling with the question of whether it is wise to take a dependency
Convert attributes to elements in XSLT
February 3, 2013 No Comments
I was working on some reporting stuff and thought I had an issue where I needed to have elements instead of attributes. I found that
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