Niall's Weblog

I’ve been getting into Twitter (I’m @niallohiggins btw) a bit recently. One of the things I wanted to do was write a little program to periodically search for a specific tag and then process the results. The Twitter Search API is very easy to use, even if there are some annoying issues. Here is a [...]

I’ve been playing with the recently-released HTTP API for accessing the Best Buy product catalog. While its a little strange to use at first, its actually pretty useful. One of the things I am interested in is online retail, specifically how to make Internet shopping easier. Lets imagine I am looking for information on a [...]

I’ve been playing around with implementing REST-ful HTTP APIs under Pylons recently. Something I find myself doing frequently is writing code to restrict the allowed methods for a given URL. For example, a read-only service should generally only allow GET actions while a write service should generally require POST. Its easy to end up with [...]