Wednesday, July 16, 2003

REST: Yeh, Baby!. I'm a RESTian, and I'm proud of it. REST is the simple idea that the web already had an architecture, one which was broken by xml-rpc and SOAP. (I guess that makes me one of the " people who don't like personal computers to try to stop progress in building GUI software that ran over the Internet", according to Dave in an eWeek article.) Gee, I don't even know anything but personal computers. Fredrik, who is also this year's winner of the Frank Willison award, wrote up a nice piece on his view of REST. Fredrik also has a nice little article on Infosets. News flash: the web has an architecture, and it isn't based on SQL or remote procedures. Even a nimrod like me can figure that out. [Zope Dispatches] Nice posts on REST and achieving RESTness. No meditation required... well, maybe... 5:26:23 PM    comment []

OSCOM Videos. Bob Doyle and his team have wrapped up quite a few of the professional-quality videos from OSCOM 3 in Harvard. One of these is from the video (RealMedia, streaming) from the Building a CMS Client In Mozilla workshop I gave with Stephan Richter. We had to cover around 40 people, working on their laptops, to build a working CMS frontend (to Apache/mod_dav and Zope) in 3 hours. We finished in 3 hours...and five minutes. :^) [Zope Dispatches] 4:14:39 PM    comment []

Jesse's Bookmarklets Page is a really cool site featuring bookmarklets (small chunks of Javascript) that make your browser do various things. A coworker turned the dev team on to the one that shows the borders of all the tables on a web page. VERY cool. 2:02:35 PM    comment []

Microsoft Awarded Homeland Security Contract. The federal government put its money where its mouth is on the matter of IT security and awarded a $90 million contract to Microsoft Corp. to provide the Department of Homeland Security with desktop and server software. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] Oh brother. 10:59:18 AM    comment []

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