REST
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A quick recap on the series so far… after introducing the benefits of moving application functionality to the cloud, we spent a couple of posts taking algorithms we'd previously hosted directly inside an AutoCAD and moving them to live behind a locally-hosted web-service. We then took a step back and talked about some issues around […]
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As mentioned in the last post, while working on deploying our web-site and its related services to Windows Azure, I started to chew on the economics of Azure hosting. This is especially relevant as I start to see my free 3-month subscription's resources being burned through by all of you checking them the links in […]
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Consumption seems to be a relevant topic, coming after the long Easter weekend here in Switzerland… I was laid up with gastric flu on Monday: after having consumed large amounts of food with friends on Saturday and Sunday, I ended up eating nothing for the whole day. I managed to put the finishing touches on […]
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In the last post, we looked at the core technology we're going to use to expose our web-service, along with the basic project set-up. In today's post, we're going to flesh out this project and see the web-service in action. At this point, I should point out that I've switched back across for VS2010 for […]
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As promised, here begins the technical portion of the series on moving application functionality to the cloud. As suggested, we're going to take code from a couple of previous posts and put it in the cloud (although not immediately – first we're going to move it to a local web-service, consume that in AutoCAD, and […]
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Actually, I wish that were true. I'm planning on taking some time off in October, but that seems a long way off, at this stage. What I've actually been doing is working with some REST-based APIs: firstly, I've been finishing up work on September's Plugin of the Month, TransTips for AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, & 3ds […]
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I know, I know... I said I'd be posting on IronRuby, but yet again I got distracted <sigh>. Back to that next week, I promise. The good news is that, once again, I managed to get distracted by something pretty cool. 🙂 Earlier in the week I'd stumbled across an article mentioning the Bing API […]