Django/Python + LinkedIn JSAPI <> oAuth Tokens

This past week I spent a little time working with LinkedIn’s JavaScript APIs. The APIs themselves are quite powerful and easy to work with.  Complications arose when it came time to convert the temporary JSAPI tokens to their oAuth equivalents. https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/exchange-jsapi-tokens-rest-api-oauth-tokens First things first, LinkedIn only passes the JS API oAuth 2.0 token over an ...

Playing with Akka + Groovy + REST + Maven

First things first, I consider myself a polyglot programmer reguarly running the spectrum from Java to Groovy to JRuby to Python.  Scala is certainly interesting from the outside looking in, but I haven’t had the time to jump in with both feet. My latest forays into Akka came as a result of some investigation I ...