I am redoing my work box with Debian Wheezy and, as of today, Skype appears to only offer a 32bit debian package for Debian Wheezy. This is fine, but I had to do a few things from a pretty minimal install to get the system to support the 32bit deb. FYI...

First off, I obviously downloaded the deb package from here.

# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt-get update
# dpkg -i ~/path/to/skype-debian_X.X.X.X-X_i386.deb
# apt-get install -f

It happens.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
$ sudo mysqld --skip-grant-tables &
$ mysql -u root -p mysql
mysql> UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD('NEWPASSWORD') WHERE User='root';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> quit

I've been experimenting with some API's that I have been building just for fun and decided to convert them into RESTful API's. The following are some links and resources that I found helpful along the way.

Some of the resources might have a Python twist to them...

General Resources

• Fielding Dissertation: CHAPTER 5: Representational State Transfer (REST)
• RESTful API Design
• GoogleDevelopers: Introduction to REST
• steps toward the glory of REST
• RESTful Service Best Practices
• API Anti-Patterns: How to Avoid Common REST Mistakes

Involving Python Things

Developing RESTful Web APIs with Python, Flask and MongoDB

Relevant

• RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
• RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax