Jason R. Briggs

Biography

Jason R. Briggs is an architect/developer working in New Zealand, and has previously written for ONLamp, ONJava, Java Developer's Journal, JavaWorld, and Linux Devices. He currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand, with his wife and daughter but has divided his time during the last decade between New Zealand and the United Kingdom--which, when he thinks about it, is entirely too much time spent hurtling through the skies in a glorified tin can. His weblog is available at http://www.briggs.net.nz/log.

Articles

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LAMP and the Spread Toolkit
Publish Date: Nov. 30, 2006The LAMP stack provides almost anything a Very Serious Business needs to run Very Serious Business Applications--except a reliable messaging system. The Spread toolkit is powerful and open and easy to use; it's a natural fit to add more power to LAMP. Jason Briggs demonstrates how LAMPS can handle almost any job you can imagine. Getting Started with WSGI
Publish Date: Nov. 9, 2006Python 2.5 added support for the WSGI standard. This is a specification for web programming that allows interoperability between frameworks and components. It's also terribly easy to use. Jason Briggs introduces WSGI and gives the background you need to use it productively. Playing Together Nicely: Getting REST and SOAP to Share Each Other's Toys
Publish Date: Feb. 15, 2006Convincing your colleagues and clients to consider a RESTful approach to SOA is difficult when the accepted standard is SOAP-style services. In this article, Jason R. Briggs introduces a SOAP interface that can be used to deliver SOAP messages from REST resources. The REST of the Web
Publish Date: Apr. 27, 2005REST, Representational State Transfer, is a collection of design principles that use simple, stateless HTTP for data transfer, without the method-call-like abstractions of RMI or SOAP. Jason R. Briggs shows how you can use this simple architecture, with Jython and Velocity, to develop nimble, loosely coupled web applications. Design by Wiki
Publish Date: Jan. 20, 2005Is your project drowning in a sea of useless, out-of-date, and irrelevant documentation? Or is your project foundering with no map whatsoever? Before you shell out time and money for a proprietary package, consider that a humble wiki may solve most of your woes. Jason Briggs explains how his team uses MoinMoin to track its project documentation--and diagrams. Migrating to Velocity
Publish Date: Apr. 14, 2004Velocity offers a compelling way to develop web applications, but converting an existing JSP-based project is no simple task. Jason Briggs shows how he used Velocity servlets to ease the transition.