2005/11/29
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Hugh Winkler shares some thoughts on what is and isn’t RESTful in a recent rest-discuss thread;
RESTful design is not an end in itself: If you find yourself adding complexity to honor the constraints of REST, consider the benefit of the complexity and only do it if the benefit is clear.
Without a doubt. The reasons I dwell on the minutae of what is and isn’t RESTful is pretty simple though. It’s not because I’m some kind of architecture astronaut as many assume. No, I’m interested in the edge cases of RESTfulness because I want to understand exactly when I’m making a tradeoff, as well as what kind(s) … which is far more difficult than you’d expect.
My head nearly exploded this morning when I caught Sanjiva quoting my favourite quote from Paul Graham’s Web 2.0 essay;
This is a great essay on Web 2.0 by Paul Graham .. the quote I like best from it is “Web 2.0 means using the web the way it’s meant to be used.”
So what’s up? Is Sanjiva doing penance for past sins of Web abuse? 8-)
2005/11/24
Yesterday I gave a presentation in Japan at Makoto Murata‘s (near) annual symposium. Well, it wasn’t actually me giving the presentation, it was Makoto. I just authored the slides.
The presentation was called The Service-Oriented Web (PDF), and covers the usual topics about using the service model that comes with the Web For Free, though in a somewhat different form than I’ve used in the past. Enjoy!
BTW, sorry about the PDF. Blah. I would have expected better export-to-HTML functionality (images?!) out of OpenOffice 2.0. *shrug* At least the PDF’s textual content can be indexed by search engines.
2005/11/22
Damn, Jon beats me to the punch; I’m working on a post where I do an architectural examination of Base vs SSE on my Coactus blog. Oh well, no urgency now. 8-)
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“I have no advice other than to say that they are doomed to failure”. Heh.
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“The World Wide Web is the Sum of Human Knowledge – Click Here for Free Porn”. ROTFL! Spotter; danbri.
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