Author Archives: Howard Dierking

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REST Resources

I got a question recently about my recent Pluralsight REST Fundamentals course. Several times throughout the course, I say something to the effect of “for more on X, check out the references section at the end of the module”. The … Continue reading 

Posted in architecture, HTTP, Web, Web API | 5 Comments

An Afternoon with Sinatra and Heroku

This is a quick summary of my experience today getting my first “hello world” Web API written in Sinatra and deployed to Heroku.  For those of you who are already experts, you’ll probably find lots of things I did wrong … Continue reading 

Posted in Heroku, Ruby, Sinatra, Web, Web API | 2 Comments

Building an Async WCF Service in .NET 4.5

In the .NET Framework 4.0 version of WCF, managing multiple asynchronous operations, for example in the form of WCF and HTTP request/response operations, is currently very complex regardless of whether you use the existing event or Begin/End asynchronous pattern. The … Continue reading 

Posted in Async, WCF | 3 Comments

ScrumPig 2 Backlog Filter Syntax

As I talked about at the end of my AppFabric TV interview, I use a tool called ScrumPig to manage my personal workflow (one day, I would love to try it out across an entire team, but baby steps).  Recently, … Continue reading 

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Some More Thoughts On OAuth 2 Sample

Recently, Pedro Félix sent me some questions on an internal mailing list regarding the recent sample I pushed out for integrating OAuth 2 into Web API (if you haven’t checked out Pedro’s blog, you should go and do that).  I … Continue reading 

Posted in OAuth, Web API | 3 Comments