5 Comments to “RESTful Delete with SLIM, jQuery and JSON”

1. Carl Helmertz
   December 12, 2011 at 5:50 pm | Permalink

   It’s kind of weird to have *only* a REST-backend with a semi-gui covering it. Allowing users to delete items without having JS enabled would sound like a nice feature. I guess that’s not the purpose of this video but to those who plan to follow this technique through outside controlled environments could probably use a hint.

2. Greg
   December 15, 2011 at 4:19 pm | Permalink

   Great screencast again! I admire your perseverance and so many years of serving us great content.
   2 things.
   1.itunes version contains low quality video. I’d like to get hd there.
   2. How do you approach security and authentication in REST app? Please, please cover this topic.
   Keep up the great work!

3. jon
   December 16, 2011 at 6:14 pm | Permalink

   @Greg

   1. the “desktop” version of the feed is 720p and should be viewable on an iPhone 4 / iPad
   2. I would probably do this outside of the actual RESTful interface and rely on either some sort of preDispatch() style code for checking a signature (e.g. private / public key encrypting of payloads), or rely on some other HTTP authentication method (DIGEST / NTLM / etc…). I guess it depends who you’re protecting yourself from and whether its about permission management or checking if someone should or shouldn’t have access at all.

4. Anon
   December 31, 2011 at 12:04 am | Permalink

   Hi Jon,

   I’ve always been a fan of your video posts from the beginning, but now it’s become harder to view and follow along since switching to the VIM editor.

   From a learning perspective (as a member of your audience): Before we were easily able to see the hierarchy of files and as you editing a file we could see visually and graphically where they file was in the hierarchy of files in the project. Now, you are using buffers and it’s harder to follow.

   Also, as you issue commands into the VIM, the little context line at the bottom flicks around which is just distracting to learning process. Screens jerking around, popup contexts flicking up and down.

   As you scroll up and down, you are pressing keys to do so, but we are unable to get any feedback. For example, in a traditional editor we know you’re about to move up the file to show us as we see your mouse over the scrollbar. With VIM, it’s just a jolt to the eye and a jittering screen.

   I ask you to reconsider your presentation style- it was fine before. You’re a great teacher and explain things very clearly. I hope my opinion is useful and maybe others agree that the old editor was a lot easier to follow

5. jon
   December 31, 2011 at 9:29 am | Permalink

   Hey Anon,

   I appreciate the feedback. I think I’ll see what sort of feedback there is on Twitter. I’m definitely open to netbeans and I think you raise a good point.

   Thank you for your support!