Nic Ferrier

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Nic Ferrier is an independent software consultant specializing in web applications. He has worked with Java since its inception and has been involved with speccing the Servlet API. These days he works mostly on free software. He lives near the Hundred Acre Wood with a wife, two kids, and a large black dog.

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Using REST with Ajax
Publish Date: Feb. 23, 2006The RESTful view of the Web says to use HTTP's verbs--GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE--where appropriate. Yet most browsers support only GET and POST. How can you achieve RESTfulness without writing your own client? Nic Ferrier shows how to design a RESTful web application using Ajax and Python. Stored Procedures for Java Programmers
Publish Date: Aug. 13, 2003You can build your application on top of a persistence layer such as EJB, but that's not your only option. Another alternative is stored procedures. Nic Ferrier explains how they work and why the common objection -- portability -- doesn't always apply.

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