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How To Implement a RESTful API

Today we will discuss a REST API. We’ll briefly go over what it is and then we’ll implement one from both the server and client perspective. What is a REST API A lot of public APIs are REST APIs and … Continue reading

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Perl Exception Handling

What Is Exception Handling? In it’s simplest form, Exception Handling allow you to write a block of code and wrap it in your own form of error handling. Typically a program will attempt to accomplish a number of tasks and … Continue reading

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Why Database Abstraction Is Useless 90% of The Time

I’m sure you’ve read a lot of posts, articles and forums where one of the “best practices” is to use a database abstraction layer. It really isn’t, and experience has taught me that the amount of times you change database … Continue reading

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