Web Things, by Mark Baker

“I say that, six or seven years into the Web Services era, the onus is on the WS-* advocates to prove the need, because the advocates of KISS approaches have, I think, amply demonstrated the viability of their approaches.”

“Clearly, each of these uses would benefit from the ability to deploy a common solution that can satisfy both the machine-to-machine and human interaction modes of access to a service through a single URI”. Will it require the uniform interface?

“Your work has contributed to one of the largest volunteer search efforts ever” I can’t help but smile to think that Jim, wherever he is, would get a kick out of how this was done. Kudos to Werner and everyone who contributed.

Cool. This seems (if it were working and I could try it out) to essentially be what my old company, Planetfred, was building 5 years ago. We didn’t have the pretty UI though (nor any UI in fact 8-).

“This tension, often described as a battle, was in fact fruitful to both sides”. Indeed. Still one more thing for the WS-* folks to understand though; that REST is an *improvement* on SOA.

Nice interview.

“After two years of research, comparative tastings, and evaluation of prototype glasses, Oregon winemakers and Georg Riedel have arrived at a new shape of wine glass designed especially for Oregon Pinot noir.” Insane!

“I, of course, hope to be in the 3rd group – watching from the sidelines from my REST system and shaking my head at the mass delusions this industry is capable of.”

“Putting aside the fact that URLs have done this since before XMLRPC existed” Before XML existed even.

See Pete, some of them can hear you. 8-)

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I’d heard of some of these before, but I can’t remember when I last laughed this hard. speedofart.com!!

Grr, no RSS/Atom feed?!?!

“At some point in the past rolling out an application to 300,000 people was the pinnacle of engineering excellence. Today it means you passed your second round of funding and can move out of your parents garage.” Nice.

ROTFL!

Dang, Mark Pilgrim makes exactly the point I was going to make.

Way to go Molly!

“LoST needs an underlying protocol transport mechanisms to carry requests and responses”. Another misuse of HTTP when the proper use appears a superior solution. *sigh*

“I will be going to ETech this year”. Me too.

Oh my. Let’s hope this ends well. Best wishes to his family.

“Guess what web technology, right now, most successfully uses microforms a.k.a. forms-driven web services”

… including my paper, yay!

“The whole WS-* versus REST thing is beyond tedious. They are both supposed to be about interop not world dominance.”. I think the Web’s doing pretty well with both, actually 8-)

I wonder if I’d pass? 8-)