Web Things, by Mark Baker

• Making it stick.: Liberty
  Two RESTafarians on one team. Ooohh.
  (tags: rest)

• InfoQ Article – Give it a REST: Mark Baker on Web Services
  Nice pic, Stefan 8-)
  (tags: rest restvsoa restvsoap restvcorba corba web markbaker)

• Sound advice: Minimum Methods
  Benjamin’s been adding some good stuff to RESTwiki. Check it out.
  (tags: rest restwiki http)
• I played WoW, I became a terrorist (story!)
  YOW, WoW
  (tags: ottawa yow wow ipod terrorist)
• Jon Udell: A conversation with Roy Fielding about HTTP, REST, WebDAV, JSR 170, and Waka
  Paraphrasing; “they’re taking an old protocol or message exchange pattern and basically adding angle brackets”. 8-O
  (tags: rest royfielding jonudell)

William Henry plays a game of “Who Stole the Network Effects”… but doesn’t seem to realize it 8-)

• Ironick: What were we thinking?
  “So who really cares that SOAP is able to be bound to MQ or IIOP or SMTP, today?”
  (tags: soap rest http webservices)

• HTTPanties
  Oh my.
  (tags: rest http underwear)

• David Baron’s weblog: More W3C Controversy
  “It’s time for the Web browser community to stop using up its resources attacking specifications that we’re not interested in implementing”
  (tags: browser web w3c mozilla)

• Brandon Smith – Misunderstanding REST
  “[…] the moment you create a WSDL document, you’ve created a proprietary protocol”
  (tags: rest webservices soa wsdl)

• Nelson’s Weblog: Parsing XML can open network sockets
  “Why are we using a data format where this is possible at all?” Because it was designed from an authoring POV, not a network POV. It should have been designed for both, of course.
  (tags: xml)

• Paul Downey: So which CRUD Operation is HTTP POST?
  CRUD has no equivalent to POST. It’s a different abstraction. Let’s stop trying to shoe-horn the Web into the shape of a database please.
  (tags: crud rest http post database data)
• REST recommended for Web services coders
  Attention would-be REST evangelists; thanks for all your help, but conflating REST and the Web is only going to confuse a lot of folks.
  (tags: rest web)
• Yahoo! API News: del.icio.us and Answers (by Jeremy Zawodny)
  “The new API is pretty much the same, except that it’s now accessible via https rather than http and it versioned as well”. Versioned?! Oh joy. Remember kids, these are *Web* APIs, and on the Web, cool URIs don’t change.
  (tags: web uris persistence naming)