More on Java API for RESTful Web Services
Tim Bray responds to Elliotte Rusty Harold’s negative comments in this post: Hey Elliotte, I guess making friends and influencing people is for losers, right? The proof of the pudding,… Read more »
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Kill the Java API for RESTful Web Services?
Elliotte Rusty Harolde wants everyone to submit comments on the proposed Java API for RESTful Web Services asking them to drop the whole idea: …there are some companies (Sun being… Read more »
SEOmoz | Web Developers: 13 Command Line Tricks You Might Not Know
SEOmoz | Web Developers: 13 Command Line Tricks You Might Not Know Via Cafe con Leche.
.NET => COM Invalid Cast Exception
If you get an InvalidCastException when accessing a COM object from .NET, it generally means that there is a version mismatch between the .NET interop dll and the COM object…. Read more »
The Soul of Some New Vaporware
Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine was one of the great nonfiction hits of the early 1980s, a gripping blow-by-blow account of how Data General developed the Eclipse… Read more »
Why XForms Matter, Revisited
Kurt Cagle argues (and I tend to agree) that the current fashion for AJAX is likely to result in a lot of nasty, unmaintainable code that probably will be full… Read more »
The End of Web 2.0?
To the horror of many developers Google is abandoning its SOAP Search API. Dave Megginson comments. Is this the beginning of the end for mashups and all the “Web 2.0”… Read more »
The Problem of Open Source in the Microsoft World
Oren Eini asks why .NET has fewer successful open source projects than Java in The Problem of Open Source in the Microsoft World.
REST for toddlers
Presumably for the benefit of those who find the RFC hard to follow, Mark Pilgrim translates the HTTP response codes into toddler-speak: REST for toddlers.
RESTful Security
The REST vs WS wars continue. Pete Lacey has an insightful post on RESTful Security, and a further clarification: Clarity Around Security.