Entries tagged with api

During the last LiveJournal upgrade, they must have updated something which broke my LJ client. Which is what I use to synchronize my blogity blog with my LiveJournal. The client is hand coded by yours truly, and not maintained really, except for random hacks when things break, so don't do that. Where was I? Oh yeah, I figured out by turning off deflate in the HTTP transaction everything started working again. Although obviously the messages are going to be larger now. So that isn't good. The LiveJournal documentation for writing clients is really terrible, from an age when the website was owned by a different sort of company that cared about interoperability. Now there are lots of broken links and no explanation when things change. It is pretty obvious that they hope you don't even notice that you CAN use those interfaces.

A pity.

Today right before I left work I asked Kim how her vacation was. Not good, she answered. Not enough excitement, she said. Only one amazingly beautiful sunset, she said. My instinct was to point out that some people live their whole lives and only get to see one amazingly beautiful sunset if they are lucky.

I was leaving (mentioned) and I was just trying to be friendly. The America in me wants people just to answer in short positive statements regardless of actual mood. The rest of me doesn’t like that, but it is hard to deny that it is there.

SOAP::Lite is like a mule. You can often coax it into doing what you want it to do, but not without a lot of headache. SOAP::Lite reminds me that designing good APIs is not easy. The Perl community, despite a lot of good work, has unfortunately produced some turkeys; there are warts everywhere. Boxing Day this old lady declared that if everyone just did as she said then the world would be a better place. I think anyone writing an API is something like that: either arrogant or deluded. Usually both.

Needless to say I spent the whole day coaxing SOAP::Lite

I hope somebody lends me a dime

Kim