Month: February 2009

REST API tester UI sketch

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After a handful of Tweets on the topic a while back I ended up having a brief email exchange with John Musser from Programmable Web (great site, by the way, basically an index of web service APIs).  I’d mentioned that I’d really like to find a tool for handling both quick and systematic tests of REST APIs.  I went ahead and sketched out a UI here for how I might do something of the sort.  Perhaps at some point in the not too distant future I’ll actually implement the code.  curl is a bit tedious.

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Here’s the Qt Designer file.

Winter Wunderland

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We’ve had more snow in Berlin this year than since I moved to Germany in 2002.  I’ve been a wanna-be-amateur photographer for a few years now, so this morning after the heaviest snow of the year — the good sticky kind of snow — I set out to Görlitzer Park with my Olympus E-500.  The last shot is now my desktop background.  Kind of creeps me out with its tunnel-of-snow look.

Berlinale ’09

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 Really looking forward to the Berlinale this year.  So much, in fact, that I’m going to see 5 of the competition films:

I’m an armchair enthusiast in film and have quite a few friends involved in film production.  In the past I’ve always been too slow in sorting out tickets to see the films that I really wanted to, so this year I was glad to get a couple days with several films in a row that I wanted to see.  Since weekends have all but evaporated since co-founding Directed Edge, it’ll be a welcome break.  It almost feels like a short vacation on the horizon.  One of the things that I enjoy most about living in Berlin is its status as an arts and culture mecca, so it’s wonderful getting to take advantage of having one of the world’s largest film festivals a short bus ride away.