The Best Keyboard Ever
Some people are perfectly happy with the $2 keyboard that came with their Gateway. Personally, I would rather write with a pencil than use one of those mushy plastic heaps. I have always tried to find nice keyboards, but they always have been second best to the metal clicky keyboard on the IBM 286 that was my computer at my first job. Ever since then I have never really loved my keyboard, until now.
jactiveresource launched
ActiveResource is one of the cooler parts of Ruby on Rails. It uses the dynamic goodness of ruby to consume RESTful resources without having to hardly write any code. How about this for a stupid-easy class:
class Person < ActiveResource::Base site = http://api.example.com end
Three lines of code makes a proxy class for a remote service, ActiveResource dynamically figures everything else out.
I needed some Java code that could consume RESTful resources in a Rails application. I looked around to see if I could find any code that would do this for me. I found Restlet, which looks like a pretty good server side framework for writing and publishing restful services, but I need the client side of that. So I decided to start a new project called jactiveresource, which is a port of ActiveResource to java. Because java is statically typed it won't be quite as easy as it is in ruby, but I think we can get close. This weekend I stood up a site to host it, and got the first bits of code working. Stay tuned....
The Rockfish
In Anapolis, MD there is a nice little restaurant called The Rockfish. It isn’t that far from the Main Street tourist trap. I have been there a couple of times for lunch, and practically had the place to myself. They have the best Seafood Cobb Salad in the world. Grilled shrimp, lots of jumbo lump crab, red grape tomatoes, and a wonderful creamy vinaigrette.