November 2012 archive

uHoopla adds support for Gmail and Facebook login

This latest uHoopla feature will allow uHoopla users to share their channel content with non-uHoopla users by adding a Gmail or Facebook email address entry to the channel subscriber list. Non-uHoopla users are authenticated by Google or Facebook’s open authentication framework and can browse the shared content over any web browser. This feature enables easier …

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Where does the term REST come from?

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. REST is an architectural style for designing interfaces for web based services. A web client manipulates a resource’s state by sending a representation as part of an HTTP PUT or POST request, (DELETE operations don’t have a representation). In turn, the server manipulates client state by sending representations in …

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