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I find that a lot of developers will use the briefer implicit return form (`transform => backup.sync(transform)`) of a function without focusing on whether the returned value has s…

Developers from several large public-facing sites have already told me that they're using engines in production. In fact, Kacey Coughlin is giving a talk tonight at the SF Ember me…

JSON API adheres to RESTful principles and constraints: it uses HTTP verbs to fetch and manipulate resources and provides allowances for hypermedia. XML-RPC is neither RESTful nor …

> JSON/REST are beloved because it's simple and just works. There is no consensus on the details of "REST". Every implementation has its subtle quirks and solutions to the same bas…

Attribute names are opaque to the base spec. Dasherization is only a recommendation (see http://jsonapi.org/recommendations/#naming ) and not by any means required.

As a co-author of JSON API, I'd like to address the value proposition of the specification. First of all, JSON API provides guidance for a lot of API design decisions that are usua…

Actually, both a broccoliphile and a broccolifilephobe.

I like the Broccoli name quite a bit (and the whole concept and implementation - great job Jo!), but I also prefer `Brocfile` to `Broccolifile`. Does that make me a broccoliphile a…

I've had this name and concept kicking around in my head for over two years. "Orbit" seems a catchy metaphor for effortless relationships between data sources. I'd hoped there woul…

Hi, I'm the developer of Orbit, which I created to enable advanced features in client-side apps such as offline mode, synchronization of local caches, undo / redo stacks, and ad ho…

I approve! One of the most annoying aspects of OS X (pre-Lion) was hunting for the lower right corner to resize windows. Thankfully, all sides of a window can now be used for resiz…

Thanks for everyone's feedback on this series. Part 2 generated some discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3516061

If I were writing this particular app as anything other than an example, I agree that Rails would be overkill. However, I wanted to provide a starting point for Ember/Rails apps th…

I guess my analogy is a bit contrived, but definitely less than this legislation ;) If we abstract analogies too far, I worry that people will ignore them. I tried to leave Uncle A…