Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra
From programming to everything else
I’m sure I’m not the first to suggest this, but here goes. Ever since somebody first thought of applying the Model-View-Controller paradigm to the web, we’ve had this: The View is a conflation of HTML and JavaScript. JavaScript is an afterthought, a gimmick to make pages “dynamic.” All the real action is in the Controller,…
I couldn’t sleep last night. So I designed a RESTful interface for version control. Yeah, that’s weird. We already have a nice model for RESTful document storage in Amazon’s S3. But S3 doesn’t do versioning. What if it did? A PUT to a previously-unused URI creates a new resource with version number 1. Any subsequent…