Okay, so now that I have my fancy new blog, it's time to start blogging again. For the past month or so I've been a little short on spare time, but what time I've had to spare has been spent playing with two new toys: Twitter and OpenResty.
Lance got me hooked on Twitter and it's pretty cool. For those that don't know, it's kind of like a Facebook status if you know what that is, but it's more than that. It's also like have a public instant messenger that you send to everyone and everyone you're following sends to you. It's also like having really short blog posts. Anyway, it's kind of cool for those quick things you find and think, "Dang, that's neat, I'd like to share that with my friends." Things I used to post to the K-Slug channel on IRC no go to Twitter. Now, I just need to get more of my friends on there to see them. :)
The other thingy I've been messing around with is OpenResty, which is somewhat of an intriguing solution for serving a RESTful web service. Basically, it's just a web service API that allows you to create database tables, rows in those tables, users, control access to the tables, etc. It provides no UI at all, just the ability to GET lists of or individual resources, POST new resources, PUT updates resources, and DELETE resources. You can then build a front-end to the data using whatever application server you like, client-side JavaScript, Adobe AIR, etc. (If you want the buzzword, this is very "Web 3G"---I'm now looking for a waste basket to puke in.)
Anyway, I'm kind of in search of a problem to solve using OpenResty to find out what it would be really helpful for and I'm just really intrigued by what it offers. But that's what I've been dinking around with lately.
Cheers.
Lance got me hooked on Twitter and it's pretty cool. For those that don't know, it's kind of like a Facebook status if you know what that is, but it's more than that. It's also like have a public instant messenger that you send to everyone and everyone you're following sends to you. It's also like having really short blog posts. Anyway, it's kind of cool for those quick things you find and think, "Dang, that's neat, I'd like to share that with my friends." Things I used to post to the K-Slug channel on IRC no go to Twitter. Now, I just need to get more of my friends on there to see them. :)
The other thingy I've been messing around with is OpenResty, which is somewhat of an intriguing solution for serving a RESTful web service. Basically, it's just a web service API that allows you to create database tables, rows in those tables, users, control access to the tables, etc. It provides no UI at all, just the ability to GET lists of or individual resources, POST new resources, PUT updates resources, and DELETE resources. You can then build a front-end to the data using whatever application server you like, client-side JavaScript, Adobe AIR, etc. (If you want the buzzword, this is very "Web 3G"---I'm now looking for a waste basket to puke in.)
Anyway, I'm kind of in search of a problem to solve using OpenResty to find out what it would be really helpful for and I'm just really intrigued by what it offers. But that's what I've been dinking around with lately.
Cheers.
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Thanks a lot for the review for OpenResty ;) I really appreciate it.
Now OpenResty does come with a nifty web UI for account administration (just as the pony site in Jifty):
http://resty.eeeeworks.org/admin/
Try using the user "test" and password "password" to log in and find out what it can do right now ;)
And this Admin site is 100% client-side JavaScript, just like my new blog site ;)
Have fun!