Web Things, by Mark Baker

“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*

“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-)

5687 POST requests in the past 24 hours for me. Fucking spammers.

Fun! But be careful with those URLs that delete stuff (on a GET)!

“You are attempting to access epass Canada with an unsupported browser.” Grr, I thought this was *my* government.

“I’ve advocated REST and POX in this column over the years, but never at the expense of WS-*, for which I always gave a “to be sure, complex scenarios may call…” deferral. No more.”

Via Stefan.. “you may note that some of the REST principles apply to properties” Indeed, it was in part my experiences with Java Beans (and Glasgow) that helped me realize what the Web was.

“If my application is just resources, and the web is just resources, then my application doesn’t use the web, it’s not part of the web, it doesn’t sit on top of underneath or in between the web – it is the web”

I don’t know Don, nor any of his work, but if he’s in part responsible for the WS-* insanity in IBM then perhaps this is Microsoft’s loss.

Cool. Also interesting is that Roy chose the URI “http://roy.gbiv.com/#me” to identify himself. Interesting.

Duh! 8-)