REST or SOAP? Or don’t care? August 17th, 2009

I think we’ve realised at Wapple that when it comes to web services, not everyone always has the same level of technology that we have at our finger tips and completely take for granted.

Take my Wapple Architect Mobile Plugin for WordPress for example, and the way it used to communicate with Wapple’s web services. It used to use SOAP simply because that was the protocol we chose to employ as our means for delivering web services.

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The need for speed August 16th, 2009

How fast is it possible for someone to run the 100 metres?

Carl LewisThe record had been slowly inching it’s way down from ever since Carl Lewis‘ 9.92 in Seoul in 1998. Second by second, slowly but surely, and scientists in white lab coats were telling everyone that the limit of human speed was on a curve that would slow down year on year.

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Clouds.. thousands of em.. August 11th, 2009

Not so long ago, the Wapple website had clouds.

Unfortuntely, the powers that be decided that the new version didn’t need them, so rather than sulk about it (ok I did sulk a bit) I’ve turned those hand crafted cumulo nimbii into a WordPress plugin!

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Hardest level in a game August 9th, 2009

What’s the hardest level on any video game you’ve ever played?

borgI’m talking about an end of level boss that made you pull your hair out and gnaw your finger nails down to the stumps. A race in a driving game that you just could not win. Something that you think that trying to complete it is as futile as resisting the Borg (Star Trek not the tennis player).

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Top 5 WordPress Plugins August 2nd, 2009

wordpressIt seems as if every man and his dog is writing a “top 5 plugins for wordpress” – the problem is they all sound the same and there’s never anything new. So as I’m a bit late to WP party, my list will be all about plugins that have got me up and running in my early days as a blogger.

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