Archive for the ‘Web Services’ Tag

Putting Google Finance to REST with Ruby

July 23, 2008 – 2:43 am

RubyNation is just a week and a half away and in order to prepare myself I thought I'd brush up on some Ruby and Rails in the days preceding the conference. I don't use Ruby on a regular basis, but I'm a huge fan of dynamic languages so I'm ...

Putting Google Finance to REST with Groovy

July 16, 2008 – 11:07 pm

For a while now I've been interested in learning more about building and consuming REST based web services. Fortunately, many tech giants including Google and Yahoo expose much of their data and functionality through REST based APIs. These powerful APIs, combined with Groovy's concise, readable syntax make it ...