Web Things, by Mark Baker

My slides from the workshop. Thanks to plh for the PDF conversion.

Nice description of how to put stuff on the Web that was previously hidden behind SOAP.

Gee, I hope I’m not switching Danny’s lights on and off via GET 8-)

A nice one from Mark. “The Evils of POST” was a surprise to me though.

As a commentor observed “Many a true word spoken in jest… “

“[…]the Web is not just the presentation tier anymore; it’s becoming a data integration and machine-oriented publishing layer”

Congrats to Mr. Beer Bust! He’ll receive this honour 3 doors down from me, at Rideau Hall.

10 Gigs of email, finally!!

“I would like to close this section with the observation that there seems to be a spectrum between the needs of the Web at large, and the needs of the enterprise.”

“I’m sure I’ll be painted a WS-* fanatic by the RESTafarians now” I think that cat was let out of the bag long ago, Sanjiva 8-)

“What about Google maps- is that RESTful? Can you give me the URIs to each and every map block at different resolutions?” Erm, yes. And “The Web is necessarily human centric” I didn’t realize anybody was still saying that!

“REST increases the likelihood that arbitrary components of the architecture can talk to each other”

Featuring PPS!

Best of luck, Steve.

If Microsoft’s adoption didn’t seal the deal for you, this should do it; OpenID has won.

“I am a big fan of REST (evangelical even) but I will personally break every single principle of REST to get a job done. The reason I generally don’t is that those principles give me real benefits.”

Great observations from Mark, and a reference to a great 1996 Jon Udell article I hadn’t read before.

Sounds like fun!

” Send as little data as possible – Send it as infrequently as possible”

“so any application can be accessed the same way, regardless of its implementation technology. Can’t it?” Yes sirree!

An awesome Pete Lacey comment. I wonder how much WS-boilerplate he’s actually responsible for 8-)