Archive for March, 2007

Ten Things To Know About CSS

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Useful tips from John Manoogian III: (The Only) Ten Things To Know About CSS. But why does the page look so ugly in IE?

David Megginson on REST

Monday, March 12th, 2007

David Megginson offers a funny but insightful summary of the most important ideas in REST: The Quick Pitch:

The elevator pitch

With REST, every piece of information has its own URL.

If you just do that and nothing else, you’ve got 90%+ of REST’s benefits right off the bat. You can cache, bookmark, index, and link your information into a giant, well, web. It works you’re reading this, after all, aren’t you? Betcha got here by following a link somewhere, not by parsing a WSDL to find what ports and services were available.