Steed

I am a Msc Student of Web Technology. I am interested in Network and Information Security.

REST API

LeapIn.it uses a REST endpoint for access to the database. This is a design pattern for hypermedia systems, which advocates providing individual resources (e.g., people) with unique URLs, and using those URLs to exchange structured information. HTTP requests can be made to these URLs, where HTTP methods are used to instruct what should happen with attached data, and status codes… Read more →

Design patterns, libraries and APIs

During our development of the LeapIn.it prototype, we have used a number of design patterns, libraries and API’s. This post will give an overview of the most crucial of these. Server The server is responsible for creating a REST interface for database access. As mentioned in our post on architecture, we have chosen to use RedBeanPHP to communicate with the… Read more →