Ezra Zygmuntowicz on Merb at the MountainWest Ruby Conference. Plain spoken, but what he says totally resonates with anyone who’s ever had to use a framework. Merb sounds very promising.
Michael Stal on architecture refactoring. Taking the concept of refactoring to a more abstract level. Not refactoring of the code, but refactoring of the design. A bit too abstract, maybe – ultimately, it is code you’re delivering.
Last week at Barcamp i gave a talk about OAuth – a means to get access to a given resource on another website without delivering your login and password to current website. The example i gave was to use contacts/friends registered on another website.
Well, it turns out nobody bleeding uses OAuth (yet). Twitter should have been first, because one of the guys who originated OAuth was from Twitter. But no, their implementation is broken. Gmail has a Contact Data API, which uses (surprise) Google Authsub, their own protocol. Yahoo, again, has Yahoo BBAuth. I haven’t really dared looking at Hotmail yet. Could be painful.