Yesterday @esjewett pointed out that tarpipe’s API 2.0 might not be considered RESTful. Quoting the previously written article “A RESTful ESME API“:
REST is often seen as an alternative to RPC APIs, or “Remote Procedure Call” APIs. At root, the difference as described by Wikipedia is that RPC is about telling an application to do something [...]
Worth checking out. Quoting the FFTW Home Page:
FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data (as well as of even/odd data, i.e. the discrete cosine/sine transforms or DCT/DST). We believe that FFTW, which is [...]
Quoting Seth’s Blog: How to make graphs that work:
Pie charts are spectacularly overrated. If you want to show me that four out of five dentists prefer Trident and that we need to target the fifth one, show me a picture of 5 dentists, but make one of them stand out. I’ll remember that.
Unless, of course, [...]
Quoting the CouchApp wiki:
[CouchApps are] utilities to make standalone CouchDB application development simple.
Some interesting links:
about authentication: CouchApps and user authentication
a tutorial: Hosted Applications
a real application using CouchApps: Ajatus CRM
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Quoting The Difference Between Total Users and Active Users:
It is not a problem for a service to have a large group of non-active users if they have a large group of active users. It’s the latter group that you need to focus on. Over time, I’ve learned that many non-active users become active for one [...]
Quoting New source file policy on Vimeo Staff Blog:
Starting August 1st, basic accounts’ original source files will be stored for one week from the upload date, after which they will be removed.
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This new one-week policy applies to all basic accounts’ videos uploaded from this point onwards. For videos that were uploaded before this blog post, [...]