Have a client application that needed to post some referral sales data to a third-party via REST. I did this a long time ago and had to do a refresher course and these were two of the better posts I used for the final implementation. With all the .NET movement towards REST and yesterday’s post about Code-first development with Entity Framework 4 I have to admit that Microsoft is adapting the demand of developers (or the marketplace). There is still a vast gap until it catches up the speed of RoR in development but they are each distinct tools so that day may never come.
Those rest posts:
http://developer.yahoo.com/dotnet/howto-rest_cs.html
http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2009/02/14/posting-data-to-a-rest-service-using-c.aspx
My wife turned me on to using LoseIt on the iPhone to track out diets and this NY Times piece writes on that use by others. Personally, I’ve found this latest take at caloric tracking incredibly simple and because of that maintainable. In the past it was easy to tire of logging a meal or snack but LoseIt makes it simple. This process has shown some insights on my diet and shed a few pounds too.
Patient Money – Losing Weight the Smartphone Way, With a Nutritionist in Your Pocket – NYTimes.com.
Everytime I read another post about the simplicity and affordability of moving to Rails I go hmm; this time I’m going HMMMMM!
InfoQ: Architecting TekPub – Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails.
