Last week marked a turning point.<\/p>\n\n
I enjoyed myself at\nXTech<\/a>\n(as usual), where, as you’d expect, a lot of the talk was\nabout Web 2.0, mashups, and yes, even “Web services”.\nThankfully though, it’s not the usual “Web services”;\nwhat I noticed (confirmed by others), much to my surprise,\nwas that the users seem to have reclaimed the\nterm<\/em> from the\nenterprisey<\/a>\narchitects, and, at least\nin Amsterdam, were using it to refer (almost) solely to RESTful\n(or “REST-like”, ala\nWeb style<\/a>)\nWeb services<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n I have to admit, when I hear it used this way, I was taken aback,\nand it took me more than a few double-takes before I caught on that\nI really could<\/em> let my guard down; these were friendly folk.<\/p>\n\n I didn’t see that<\/em> coming.<\/p>\n\nsoa<\/a>,\nrest<\/a>,\nweb<\/a>,\nenterprisey<\/a>,\nwebservices<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week marked a turning point. I enjoyed myself at XTech (as usual), where, as you’d expect, a lot of the talk was about Web 2.0, mashups, and yes, even “Web services”. Thankfully though, it’s not the usual “Web services”; what I noticed (confirmed by others), much to my surprise, was that the users seem […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}