i don’t like that you cannot link to individual slides. not RESTful at all.
Tag: REST
Amazon fails at REST
Designing in side-effects to GET requests is a fundamental mistake of web development that people who don’t understand the web/http tend to make. It’s less common now than it used to be, but I’m suprised to see it in a web API from one the biggest web properties and doubly surprised to see it called “REST”.
what is it with amazons infatuation with SOAP? how can they be a web company yet develop such lousy “API”s?
Long Bets Apologia
the architecture of the www now informs everything: REST style everywherre, search-centric data stores, languages that scale out instead of up, making information survivable in the face of data loss and dissonance between systems
ETag Algorithm
What you want to do is compute the ETag based on the underlying data resources that actually drive the page creation; the input to that process, not its output.
Restful Services for Geospatial Information
ron lake:
The OGC is now actively considering the expression of its web services such as WFS, WRS, WMS and WCS using a REST model.
woo! good work, sean.
Crawl Before You Walk
It is striking that it is only in its 5th year of existence that a framework for building web applications is considering allowing bookmarking and might even use the HTTP GET method where applicable.
AJAX and automation
For these 2 reasons — the transparency of the HTTP pipeline, and the accessibility of the JavaScript object model — I think that AJAX is inherently more automatable than conventional GUI apps ever have been.
the view source qualities of RESTy interfaces are only slightly impacted by JSON / XMLHTTP, imho. more problematic: the js obfuscation.
General-purpose intermediation
It ought to be trivial to attach an observer and/or filter to HTTP pipelines. Among other things, it could shovel data into a search engine so that I could instantly recall a remembered transaction by search term, by date, or by site.
stefano’s pipelines coming to HTTP. this enabled jon to reverse engineer a gmail api
They can’t hear you
the typical corporate technologist hasn’t considered REST and decided against it, they haven’t even heard the term. Ditto RelaxNG, Atom, and everything else that makes the Web work and makes working with the Web easy
soo true
URI Templating
not sure yet how this is relevant, but it is backed by people i trust with webarch
The idea behind URI templates is blindingly simple. There are lots of conventions that people use to denote the variable parts of URIs; one of them is to use {brackets}. All that we’ve done is codify that practice (brackets are a good choice because they’re not allowed in URIs, so there isn’t much risk of collision).
2007-07-28: hopefully leading to more REST hygiene in internet systems
Gregor J. Rothfuss 