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REST Overview
- REST: Representational State Transfer
- Allow responses em different formats, often these responses are JSON (Javascript Object Notion) and XML
- Has resources that we can consume, often a database or file
- Resources accept differents request verbs: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE...these verbs are used for CRUD.
- Typically a response will have 2 meaningfull information: body and status code

Very good material about Lucene/Solr presented by Erik Hatcher, Lucid Imagination.
http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/61/Solr%20Application%20Development...

Hope it help you
good luck =)

Securing an application is something that we need to keep in mind since the begin of conception of the application, I've seen many articles but I really liked these 2 presentations from Krzysztof Kotowicz and would like to share:

Recently I've faced some problems with AJAX calls when using Backbone.js and Zepto.js, to fix this issue I added some information to headers: Access-Control-Allow-Origin, Access-Control-Allow-Methods and Access-Control-Allow-Headers.

Hi, a new release of CakePHP is available, It's 2.0, there are a lot of changes you can have a look here:
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/appendices/new-features-in-cakephp-2-0.html

Hello there!

Today I am talking about the login customization.

Here you are the steps:

1 - Create a new block called login.

2 - Add the following code:

One of the new features in PHP 5.3 is the Late Static Binding in special the new keyword static.
Static is similar to self except it refers to the invoked instead of the containing class.

Nowadays there's a huge need to integrate applications, systems, people... =D well people integration is other subject related to Social Networks hehehe

As part of an integration, my client requested to develop a Cake PHP application and this application needed to interact with Drupal.
Well, we are talking about the apps here, different Sessions and Domains...

Hello there, to this Article I am considering that you have already setup your Drupal Services, Json Server and already have a beautiful Cake PHP running...
So, let's code:

1 - Created a Module:
- Folder: wilsolutions_service
- Files: wilsolutions_service.info and wilsolutions_service.module

1.1 - Info file wilsolutions_service.info:

So, here we are going to create a Cake PHP Controller without a Model.

This Controller will perform Calls to a Drupal Web Service as you saw in the previous Articles, the Call will return a Drupal User Object in Json format.

1 - Create your Controller: