Google Assistant meets Ktor
Implementing an Assistant webhook endpoint with Ktor For the longest time I had wanted to experiment with backend services, but coming from the mobile world of Android it always felt a…
Real world json parsing in WinRT
Parsing text is everywhere these days. Having a human readable-friendly data format is very compelling, and json one of the big players in this area. I often find myself copying…
JSON Schema Validation with REST Assured
When exposing REST or HTTP based service APIs it's important to validate that the API behaves correctly and that the exposed data format is structured in an expected manner. Using…
Using EventStore Atom API from Clojure
I have been experimenting with event sourcing in Clojure (and in Java), but previously I simply used an in-memory store. In this post I'll describe how to use Greg Young's EventStore from Clojure.
What's new in REST Assured 1.8?
REST Assured is a framework for easy testing of REST or HTTP services in Java and has recently reached version 1.8. The internals of REST Assured have undergone a major…
Three Undocumented Features of JSON
Update: This article was written as an April Fool's joke, taking a stab at the fact that JSON is a closed, dumb, and pretty anemic data format. There are other…
Neo4j .NET Client over HTTP using REST and json
Here it is; a Proof of Concept of the world’s first Neo4j .NET Client. In other words: Here follows a discussion on how to create a client library for communicating…
Would you like a Byte Order Mark to go with that?
It is possible to encode a little bit of metadata at the beginning of your byte streams to let the stream itself carry information on how it has been encoded.…