{"id":1946,"date":"2007-08-08T18:29:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T22:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/08\/what-next\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T18:29:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T22:29:38","slug":"what-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/what-next\/","title":{"rendered":"What next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/torrez.us\/archives\/2007\/08\/08\/544\/\">Elias has noticed<\/a> that my blog has fallen silent recently, and suggests that REST&#8217;s victory over WS-* has something to do with it.<\/p>\n\n<p>He&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had much contract work the past few weeks, but have been helping a couple of startups.  But the main reason I don&#8217;t blog is that my curmudgeonly style really only works when I&#8217;m the lone voice, arguing for the unpopular-but-superior solution.  Now that the arguments I&#8217;ve been making for the past seven or so years are finally being recognized as superior, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d come off as just plain mean if I were to go after anybody who said that they were sticking by WS-* (something about kicking a horse when it&#8217;s down).<\/p>\n\n<p>What comes next for me and this weblog then?<\/p>\n\n<p>Something I considered doing a couple of years ago was a regular &#8220;Ask Mark&#8221; piece, where I&#8217;d publish one of the many REST\/Web questions I get via email.  I&#8217;d been answering those privately for years, but perhaps I could now do so on condition that I can publish them (though few are really interesting).<\/p><p>\n\n<\/p><p>Another thought was covering REST\/Web esoterica.  There&#8217;s an abundance of interesting topics to cover on the fringes of REST and the Web.  Yet another was a retrospective of some of the more heated battles over the past years, on weblogs and mailing lists.<\/p><p>\n\n<\/p><p>Let me know what you&#8217;d like to see me cover.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elias has noticed that my blog has fallen silent recently, and suggests that REST&#8217;s victory over WS-* has something to do with it. He&#8217;s right. I haven&#8217;t had much contract work the past few weeks, but have been helping a couple of startups. But the main reason I don&#8217;t blog is that my curmudgeonly style [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,35,38],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rest","tag-web","tag-webservices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","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=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}