Many times I’ve had to sweep an inbox and do something with the email. Typically the easiest way is to use IMAP, but our corporate email server has IMAP disabled.
Fortunately 2007 Microsoft Exchange has had a rich web service interface so I wanted to give that a try.
One of the main patterns used is to read an email and then move it to something like an ‘archive’ or ‘error’ directory....
This post is for people who have started learning about hypermedia and feel that it over complicates the elegance of REST. When I started hearing about hypermedia I felt it was adding architecture acrobatics for the sake of buzzword enhancement. After having applied these techniques in a few places not only have a drunk the cool aid, I’ve setup a stand beside my desk. I look back and try to understand where my initial negative reaction came from....
I’m using a hosted version of JIRA and needed to obtain quick totals based on filters that I have setup.
I could not find any easy documentation online so I thought I’d share my quick hack.
The REST API is very well documented and uses the same JQL as the filters do.
In order to view the commit list for an iteration I have some JQL that looks like:
fixversion = 20120611 and fixversion was 20120611 ON “2012/06/11” AND status NOT IN (canceled, “on hold”)...
On Monday we are kicking off an innovation week (more to come on that topic) and I’ve devised a little project that includes nearly every buzzword I’m interested in.
I’m spending some time doing some technical spikes to see what is possible and I found a need to load a particular file from a git repo given the path and tree hash.
I grabbed my trusty python, dulwich (native python-git library) and gave it a shot....
Ever since Barcamp I’ve been shopping for a personal laptop for general use as well as a development machine that I could use for work. Our work issued machine is a loaded mac powerbook. With a unix core osx has given me much of the power that I used to enjoy when I’d used linux as a primary os. However Apple is not doing wonders for free software and I felt the need to get back to my roots and move back to Linux....