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CodeCamp: in need input

Posted by Owen Evans on Monday, August 18th, 2008

Ok so this is a bit of a plea.
I’ve a week or so to work on my CodeCamp presentation “MVC and Me” (ok so would have been cooler to link to flight of the navigator but that’s too hard for me to pull off) and I’m still trying to gather as many ideas about what [...]

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Split And Sprint

Posted by Owen Evans on Thursday, August 14th, 2008

In a forthcoming book (before you ask I’ve no idea what the title is) there’s a little case study about the first project i ever truly worked on as a developer. The project and the team have some of my fondest memories, and I’d want to work with any of the people in the small [...]

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Post 300

Posted by Owen Evans on Friday, August 8th, 2008

Ok I just had to cheat an make up a reason to post. But this is my 300th post, this blog has been going for more than 5 years (25 Feb 2003 was my first post, those heady days of university). that’s 1992 days, so an average of one post every 6.64 days. (my goodness [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘xero’

Xero API + Ruby Revisited

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Oh my, thanks very much to Tim Haines for pointing out HTTParty, this little gem makes writing an API for the Xero code really, really easy:
here’s all the methods for getting info out of Xero:
require ‘HTTParty’
require ‘pp’
class Xero
include HTTParty
format :XML
def initialize(url,api_key)
Xero.base_uri(url)
Xero.default_params({:apiKey=>api_key})
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Connecting to the Xero API: Part 1 [Ruby, GET, Contacts]

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Hey hey hey, so I finally get an excuse to post some ruby code, yay!
As part of my foray into the Xero API I wanted to get a feel for how easy it would be to connect from non .net languages and as my Ruby was getting a bit rusty I thought I’d pull out [...]

Is that you?

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I didn’t recognise you it’s been so long.
I finally got the urge and the patience to fire up my editor and write a post for this long neglected weblog.
How are you all doing? good I hope?
Ok so I may have been prompted to write by a link from Julian over at ProWorkflow but I’m here [...]