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
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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
Making your ASP.NET Web API funcky with an OWIN appFunc
May 27, 2014 No Comments
The OWIN specification defines a delegate called appFunc that allows any OWIN compatible host to work with any OWIN compatible application. This post shows you how to
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