The recent Oreilly book Enterprise Rails has a few chapters on SOA and the entire time I was reading those chapters I kept thinking to myself that Rails is sorta overkill for most services implementations, unless you plan on bundling APIs and applications together. I was going to write something about translating the services [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve started looking into writing DataMapper Adapters, using my MailChimp wrapper as an example. Thus far, I’ve been pretty impressed with the Adapter layer built into DataMapper and the possibilities this abstraction layer provides. A quick search over at GitHub will show you all the interesting [...]
Inspired by this post by The Merbist, I’ve decided to begin writing a Datamapper Adapter for MailChimp as a follow up to my post about creating a Merb web service. Look here for updates. Just an empty shell at the moment, but I’ll remedy that shortly.
A while back, I was asked to build some code to help keep a businesses mailing list synchronized between SalesForce.com and their campaign management tool, which I suggested should be MailChimp and not the tool they were currently using, but I digress. The project never materialized, but I figured I would build it anyway [...]
