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 …
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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 …
