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RESTful DB and App Servers

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: RESTful DB and App Servers
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 07 19:40:21 GMT

Like I said before, most of the week’s linkage
has had to do with CouchDB or, generally speaking,
to do with JSON-formatted REST-accessed database and
application servers.

http://mv.asterisco.pt/cat.cgi?JavaScript%20in%20All%20of%20the%20Tiers
http://del.icio.us/mvalente

CouchDB is sure fun to use, but its Erlang dependency just
pisses me off.

http://couchdb.org/
http://code.google.com/p/couchdb/
http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/108-Programming-CouchDB-with-Javascript.html

The way that I’ve been thinking about a new web development
framework indeed involves a REST interface and JSON or XML
formatted data. But I just think that a) you might as well
standardise the programming languague used at all tiers (and
that means Javascript) and b) you should have REST/JSON as
interface not only to the DB tier but also to the logic tier.

Sure enough there are some alternatives if you want to go
that way.

Basura DB (Python based JSON/REST DB implementation)
http://www.intertwingly.net/code/basura/
http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/09/24/Tests-Id-Like-CouchDB-to-Pass

Persevere (Java based)
http://code.google.com/p/persevere-framework/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-aj-objmap/

Robaccia (Python based web framework includes a RESTful JSON server)
http://bitworking.org/news/restful_json_server

JSONStore
http://taoetc.org/97

DBSlayer (HTTP/JSON interface for MySQL databases)
http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer

But aditionally to databases, I’m thinking more in line with
the proposed RADAR architecture of having the REST interface
also available for the app server. There arent as many options
here…

The RADAR Architecture
http://pragdave.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/03/the_radar_archi.html

Naked Objects
http://www.nakedobjects.org/tutorial/index.shtml

NetKernel
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=47695
http://www.1060research.com/netkernel/

And sure enough all of the above is typically Java-based (yuck!),
with some other languages thrown in (Python, Erlang), but none
goes all the way and standardises on Javascript as the implementation
language and the glue language. Apparently I am not the only one
considering this idea…

Alt Framework
http://marcello.cellosoft.com/projects/alt/

Simile’s Exhibit Framework
http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/

— MV

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08
Dec 07

Zappa: Heavy Mental

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Zappa: Heavy Mental
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 07 16:07:21 GMT

“Flakes”, a song on Frank Zappa’s Sheik Yerbouti album,
contains a Dylan parody, with guitarist Adrian Belew
doing the Dylan “voice”.

http://www.edlis.org/twice/threads/flakes.html

I was looking out on YouTube to see if there was
some video for Bob Dylan’s impersonation in one of
Frank Zappa’s songs when I found a bunch of stuff
both from Frank Zappa, Dweezil Zappa (son) and
Moon Unit Zappa (daughter) that is the perfect
example that you can have heavy and mental in the
same setting… Some of the videos is stuff that I
hadnt seen in 20 years…

Frank Zappa – Flakes+Broken Hearts are for Assholes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBPlvuSisdg (with Steve Vai on guitar)

Frank and Dweezil Zappa — Sharleena (live) (“Battlestar Galactica?!?”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1c39Hi8SLI (THE DWEEZ!)

Moon Unit Zappa – Valley Girl (“Its like SO bitchen!!”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M9aY7hXjGU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eEvLzoSVsw (with lyrics)

Dweezil + Moon Zappa – Let’s Talk About It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbN3iAdWPi0

Dweezil Zappa – My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RfAmdTa4W8 (“No Redeeming Social Value!”)

— MV

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08
Dec 07

Open Arena Evolved

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Open Arena Evolved
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 07 01:57:21 GMT

Like I said about a month ago, the game that I’ve
been playing and that led me away from Enemy Territory
(although I play now and then) is Open Arena:

http://mv.asterisco.pt/2007/Nov/cat.cgi?Open%20Arena

Having gone through all the maps, with 3 bots (+ me)
and at levels “I Can Win”, “Bring It On” and “Hurt Me
Plenty” (now cycling through “Hardcore”), I started to
think that pretty soon I’ll need aditional fun. Which
brough to my mind the fun times I had with pepper, nbk
and zorton playing some Quakeworld mods and maps.

When I went to look for them I found that some are
available for Quake 3 Arena! Which might make them
moveable to Open Arena.

Open Arena Evolved anyone? You’d just need to port
over this stuff:

Quake 3 Requiem Mod
http://www.reqoning.com/q3req/

Quake ChaosDM Mod
http://chaosdm.planetquake.gamespy.com/ (Q2)
http://chaosarena.planetquake.gamespy.com/ (Q3 version never came out)

Muny’s Maps
http://www.munyul.com/stuff_quake.html

— MV

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08
Dec 07

Microsoft LiveLabs Volta

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Microsoft LiveLabs Volta
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 07 00:49:21 GMT

Microsoft LiveLabs Volta

http://labs.live.com/volta/

“JavaScript is just an assembly language,says Live Labs
product manager Alex Daley.”

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=480

See, VD? I told you so…

http://mv.asterisco.pt/2007/Nov/cat.cgi?Slowly%20but%20Surely

— MV

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Dec 07