Tag Archives: api

Asynchronous HTTP Client in Play Framework

I just finished migrating Play’s http client to Ning’s own asynchronous library. What does it mean? A lot. When you want to retrieve data from a different server, your web application behaves like a web client. Rather than serving a resource to a client, it requests one from a different server. For example, that’s what

Facebook’s Bugzilla and Open Source Code

It’s always a pleasure when a company offers a public bug tracker for users and third party developers. So it’s great to see that Facebook has a public bugzilla. The problem with having a public bug tracker is that you’re supposed to be responsive and fix bugs; nothing worse that real bugs rotting in the

OpenID to break the web 2.0?

Reading on Techcrunch that Facebook was going to let people log in with OpenID left me with a mixed feeling. On one hand, it’s a shame that most services claimed to support OpenID while only offering an ID, but not letting people use outside IDs to log in. On the other hand, it’s going to