A reading list for learning about ETags.

This will review solving the "Lost Update" problem with ETags within a Laravel 4 RESTful API. This builds off of previous ETag related articles.

There are many articles describing what a Hypermedia API is. Many have a lot of jargon and cover a lot of topics. This one does neither. Learn what a Hypermedia API is on a basic level.

This 2010 video of Jon Moore's talk is extremely good for connecting the dots on just what a Hypermedia API is and might look like.

There are a few guides out there which help you install Laravel 4 in a way that let you pull in updates to the skeleton app in addition to the composer-based libraries. I think this is the best, quickest way.

I've begun integrated ETag's into a Laravel 4 API application. I've started by implementing Conditonal GETs.

I've been scouring the internet for good information on setting up user and group permissions for Apache. I'll link some resources on the bottom here, but here's what I found:

@fideloper the latter and hope I don't have to use reflection to mock a private/protected method

February 26, 2013

I last wrote about ETags in context of Conditional GETs, which allow a server to see if a resource has been modified since the last time a client checked. If it has not been modified, the server can return a 304 Not Modified response.

My curiosity about ETags (Entity Tags) was first piqued when reading over Github's API documentation. Looking into them, I saw that there explanation often pointed to them as a "cacheing" mechanism.

In looking to build a RESTful API, an important consideration is how to handle errors. Most errors are displayed to users in HTML, as these are web applications. However, API's need some special care.

Here's how to get started really quickly with Laravel 4. Updated since Laravel 4's official release!

If you make judicious use of IoC containers (and Dependency Injection), you'll likely end up with lots of Bindings, some of which may look like:

I like to create my own library for any application. Similarly, I like keeping the "models" directory clean - I only add Laravel classes (Usually Eloquent instances) inside of the "model" folder.

Laravel encapsulates HTTP requests and responses within PHP objects. As you likely know, the HTTP core of Laravel revolves around Symfony's HTTPFoundation component.