A “web application framework” is a bundle of code that is suppose to help web designers/programmers build web sites. The framework usually takes care of some setup tasks, and helps make some complicated tasks easy. At this point in time, the framework receiving the most hype is Ruby on Rails. As the name suggests, it [...]

Ryan Tomayko has posted a convenient lay-explanation of the REST style of software architecture in the form of a dialogue between himself and his wife. No word on why he was talking to his wife about such a thing.

Dappit.com is the home of an impressive new application known as Dapper. Their tagline says it all: “…A new service which makes it easy to extract content from any website.” Once you choose a site you want to scrape for data, Dapper walks you through each step of naming fields, shaping your output and bundling [...]