Comments on: REST vs SOAP, the personal cost

By: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Explaining REST to Damien Katz

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Explaining REST to Damien Katz — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:33:30 +0000

[...] 2002, a canary in the coal mine emerged in the form of Mark Baker. On mailing lists frequented by Web services types such as xml-dev and xml-dist-app, Mark began to [...]

By: Carlos E. Perez

Carlos E. Perez — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:51:31 +0000

Yes, the tide has definitely turned. A lot of developers are growing up with a instinctive understanding to avoid gratuitous complexity. Thanks for maintaining that constant drumbeat for all those who rebelled against unsound standardization that had been forced upon us.

By: Marc de Graauw

Marc de Graauw — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:41:48 +0000

Thanks for all you’ve written on REST (and SOA). I learned a lot from it. Looking forward to seeing you work on other subjects.

By: Paolo Perrotta

Paolo Perrotta — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:18:20 +0000

The time you (and others like you) have invested has helped countless others spare their own time and cut through the hype. I owe you a beer, and I suspect many people do.

By: Allan Doyle

Allan Doyle — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:34:51 +0000

Mark – Your REST advocacy has been heroic in my book. I first learned about REST in the early ’00s and even back then you had some nice explanations I was able to tap into for inspiration. Thanks!

By: Simon St.Laurent

Simon St.Laurent — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:28:44 +0000

And another big thank you, from someone who had doubts early but fortunately heard from you and Paul Prescod early enough to obliterate those doubts.

And now I’m having fun with Rails 2.0, where REST just happens!

By: Stu Charlton

Stu Charlton — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:58:20 +0000

Mark,
I was convinced back in the dist-obj days, needed some re-convincing in 2006 (which you did!), and was quite honoured to be able to present with you at OOPSLA this past year. Can’t say I’m surprised you’ve made this decision, I am pretty close to it myself. ;-)

The tech world changes slower than one often realizes, primarily because technology is used as fodder for politics. Politics inevitably slows innovation down, sometimes for better, often for the worse.

Thanks for all of your work.

By: Kragen Javier Sitaker

Kragen Javier Sitaker — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:01:48 +0000

I wish I could say that it would have happened without you — that the WS-* effect was so obviously harmful that people would have used stuff that works anyway — but I’ve seen enough broken software made to work over the years that I know better.

So, thanks, Mark, on behalf of the people of Earth, from its most romantic city, Buenos Aires. I hope your health clears up, and I know you’ll keep on doing good things.

By: Mark Baker

Mark Baker — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:16:29 +0000

I just fixed my email installation on my Web server and was bombarded with notifications of all these comments which had been queued up. Thank you, thank you everyone, I’m speechless.

By: John Kemp

John Kemp — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:36:00 +0000

Congratulations on finding an opportunity to achieve some balance. Being right is nice, but feeling good about it is much better. Thanks for all that you do to educate people.