I’ve written about Google and OAuth before, but that was OAuth v1.0, and they are introducing OAuth2 for their newer APIs; in this example I was identifying myself in order to use the Google Plus API (which turns out not to do anything you’d expect it to do, but that’s a whole separate blog post!). Continue reading
Put these two things together and what do you get? Actually don’t answer that! Today what you get is an example of integrating with JIRA’s REST API, because their recent “upgrade” locked me out of the issue listings pages completely and I really do need to be able to see a list of bugs! Their bug editing screen is quite usable, so it’s just the list that I need here, but you could easily call their other API methods as you need to. Continue reading
Consider that tried-and-tested example: employees and managers. Here’s the staff table from the database (today’s imaginary data isn’t particularly imaginative, sorry):
mysql> select * from staff; +----+------------+-----------+------------+ | id | first_name | last_name | manager_id | +----+------------+-----------+------------+ | 1 | Hattie | Hopkins | 4 | | 2 | Henry | Hopkins | 4 | | 3 | Harry | Hopkins | 5 | | 4 | Helen | Hopkins | NULL | | 5 | Heidi | Hopkins | 4 | | 6 | Hazel | Hopkins | 1 | +----+------------+-----------+------------+ 6 rows in set (0.00 sec)
On Monday 19th March I’ll be speaking at PHP Leeds. The topic is all things git and github; as an open source project lead I see lots of very capable programmers taking their first steps with github. In this session we’ll talk about how you can use these tools to contribute to open source (or your own projects, of course), covering both “what to click in the web interface” and “what to type at the command line” for git and github respectively. Come along if you want to know more about git, open source, or github!failed to shell execute cmd=" "" -Tpng"
