I met Paul in Honolulu at WWW2002 where he and his partner Chris Sukornyk were working on developing what turned out to be Semaview. Unfortunately things didn’t work out there, and Semaview recently ceased operations. But coincidentally, I happened to catch a pointer on the SWIG chump yesterday to an article written by Paul some time ago. It’s about Semantic Web Services, which immediately brought to mind an exchange we had a couple of years ago where I told him I thought it was great that he was planning to expose the functionality of their software, but suggested it be done over the Web rather than with Web services, which they did end up going with. Well lo-and-behold, but Paul has just resurfaced and written about his experience with Web services, and how he has now seen the value in the REST architectural style. He concludes;
Lesson learned. Keep it simple stupid.
Amen.
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