Web Things, by Mark Baker

I’ll take the expanded version, thanks

“SOAP’s goal of being agnostic to transports is fine. But being agnostic does not mean it has to be impossible to leverage the underlying transport’s efficiencies.” I could have used the backup circa 2000/2001!

Big news! Congrats to Jon and Microsoft.

“Anything that can have a URI can be a resource, surely 404 deserves to have URI.” Sounds like a plan! RFC 2774 gave extension headers URIs. PEP gaves us URIs for new methods. Content types already have URIs (at iana.org). Why not response codes?

“It looks more & more that we are going to have two incompatible world-views and protocol pillars.”. Not really; Darwin usually picks sides 8-)

An interesting read about the history of “REST vs. SOAP”. Quotes some Roy’s more heated statements too 8-)

Fascinating observations by Jon. Those habits should go up on a Wiki.

“415 – Don’t eat your boogers”. Good advice from Mark.

Yes, *that* RDF.

“Is there any better indication that REST is where it’s at?” Heh, no, I guess not. 8-)

Technology run amok!

Neat. Google Base + graphs. Will have to play more with it.

“In fact, if there was such a thing as an “internet driver’s license” some of you might be in danger of losing it at the moment.” Heh. 8-) Go Jeff!

“Another benefit of this is that if there is ever a new syndication feed format, you don’t have to wait for browsers to be updated with the new MIME type to recognise it as a feed.” Independent evolution, check!

Damn, only 58. Africa killed me.

My latest on why the Web is better.

“”So your architect isn’t all bought into SOA, eh? Well fire him, dammit.”” 8-) You get what you deserve, of course.

“Anyone can master the names of big concepts and combine them like so many puzzle pieces; it’s knowing how they work that takes time.” Sound familiar?

(via Rob Sayre) I’m really looking forward to sitting down with this spec for a couple of days.

“Now begins the age of REST, and Rails, and Microformats, and getting shit done.” Amen!

It’s 2006; it shouldn’t be that difficult to write even a reasonably good “REST vs SOAP” story. This one doesn’t seem to add anything more to the conversation that wasn’t there in 2001.

Four years later, and we still don’t know the architectural constraints of Web services/SOA 8-(

“Is this science? Truth? No, it’s the voice of goons.” +1

Nice. But damn, how hard is it to get Roy’s name right? This at least the third or fourth time I’ve seen “Ray Fielding”.

“[..] if you have an incredible idea of your own […] people around you will consider you a moron right up until the point your idea works. Then they’ll think you’re a lucky moron. Genius looks just like stupidity to the observer”

So this is the infamous Yohei (in Japanese)

Whither serendipity?

Woohoo, more competition for Futureshop/BestBuy

“The right thing to do, of course, is only offer a GET binding to safe operations and not to everything” No, Sanjiva, that’s *not* the right thing to do. The right thing to do is to enforce GET as the operation.