The Rest, As They Said, Was History

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The rest is history

The rest is history 04/12/2004 12:47 PM

XML for the rest of us

XML for the rest of us 12/22/2003 12:34 PM

"The relational database is designed to serve up rows and columns," said BEA's Adam Bosworth in his keynote talk. "But our model of the world is documents. It's 'Tell me everything I want to know about this person or this clinical trial.' And those things are not flat, they're complex. Now we have the way to get not only the hospital records and prescriptions but also the doctor's write-ups."

The doctors and bankers will get that, just as the highway patrolmen already do. XML documents, flowing through XML plumbing, can now deliver very real and tangible benefits. For the publishing geeks who started it all, it's a moment to savor. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

By the way, Adam Bosworth said a great many other interesting things in his XML 2003 talk. For those of you not inclined to watch this QuickTime clip -- and in particular for the search crawlers -- I would like to enter the following quote into the public record. ...

rest of it

rest of it 12/26/2004 06:49 PM

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you need your rest i can't say what's
best

you need your rest i can't say what's
best 03/19/2005 02:45 AM
I taped a bunch of segments for an awesome VH-1 show today. I won't name it, because I don't know...

No Rest for Nokia

No Rest for Nokia 04/16/2004 12:52 PM
The Finnish phone maker looks like a nail in a world full of hammers.

Ask MacSlash: DNS For The Rest Of Us

Ask MacSlash: DNS For The Rest Of Us 03/22/2005 04:45 PM

"Read The Rest?"

"Read The Rest?" 04/12/2004 10:00 PM

ReST vs RPC Redux

ReST vs RPC Redux 03/11/2003 11:53 AM

It looks like SOAP is destined to continue to be maligned and misunderstood.

Dave Winer is upset because not everybody limits themselves to his narrow RPC profile of SOAP usage.  Non-RPC usage of SOAP isn't new - it was always in the spec.  And things that fit Dave's narrow profile continue to interop.

Mark Baker is upset because SOAP permits usages which are not, in his and many people's opinion, well architected.  Usages such as RPC.  While many of Mark's arguments resonate with me, he tends to throw the baby out with the bathwater.  He might as well say that Python is not a good language for building REST systems because it can also be used for RPC.

Meanwhile, where Mark throws up his hands, others are making progress.

REST vs SOAP

REST vs SOAP 03/11/2003 11:53 AM
My POW, FWIW:

The sweet spot is GET and POST of XML Infomation Sets. REST's content independence and SOAP's transport independence are simultaneously both key strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Both contain speculative features that have not been widely adopted (e.g., DELETE? Content-Negotiation?). The most underrated feature of SOAP is asynchronous messaging.

REST + SOAP is a powerful combination.

Gaming for the rest of us

Gaming for the rest of us 12/19/2004 03:46 PM

What happens when a good developer goes bad and closes up shop? Game.Ars has a look at what supposedly happened to an insider at Interplay.

After several months, money arrived via a bank-to-bank transfer, i.e. direct deposit, but it was far less than my normal paycheck. I tried to reach somebody, anybody to explain this. Calls and emails to executives went unanswered.

Unfortunately, that happens all too often.

In addition, Game.Ars looks at the phenomenon of banned games — blood and gore is ok, but uncovered female breasts are not. And of course, there's all the week's gaming news. Read on.

IPass for the Rest of Us

IPass for the Rest of Us 12/23/2003 02:18 PM
While iPass is a great option for heavy travelers whose companies have deals with iPass, individual travelers must look elsewhere for a Wi-Fi subscription that includes many hotspots: Global Broadband Internet Access members may offer a good option. Hotspot operators around the world are part of the group and as such offer roaming onto their networks. Most of the operators are in Europe, including The Cloud in the U.K. and a handful of operators in the Netherlands, but Surf and Sip is also part of the group. Currently there are 1,900 hotspots in the network but that number should grow to 2,500 by the end of January....

A Festivus for the Rest of Us!

A Festivus for the Rest of Us! 12/24/2003 05:27 AM
A Festivus for the Rest of Us! .. Festivus .. Oh

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SWiM - A CMS for the rest of us

SWiM - A CMS for the rest of us 03/30/2005 07:17 AM
SWiM Beta1

iTunes For The Rest Of Us

iTunes For The Rest Of Us 12/16/2003 11:05 PM
Apple must open the iTunes Music Store internationally, or risk losing the market share it has gained in the digital music market it created. By Amy Percival (SpyMac via MyAppleMenu)

Rest Assured

Rest Assured 06/15/2002 12:22 AM
WebTechniques Jun 15 2002 0:02AM ET

Robots and the Rest of Us

Robots and the Rest of Us 05/13/2004 04:57 AM
What do you do about fear and loathing on the human-machine frontier? Convene a meeting of robot ethicists, of course. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine.

Learning to Rest

Learning to Rest 12/08/2003 08:08 AM

Adam Bosworth: I admit to not being a REST expert and the people commenting, Mike Dierkin and Mark Baker in particular, certainly are. They tell me I'm all wet about the REST issues. I'll dig into it. But I admit, I don't get it. I need to be educated.

I personally think that the place to start is to first tease apart the "HTTP is the one true protocol" from the "REST is the one true architecture", and then initially focus on the latter.  Once done, you may come back to believe in one or both of these, but they can be addressed independently.

To draw an analogy, Java 1.0 did not have a component model.  A convention of getters and setters methods corresponding to a property emerged.  Getters always have zero parameters, setters typically have one.

On the web, there is an analogous component model.  Resources have a GET and POST method (as well as a few others).  This is not one per property, but one per resource (object).  This encourages a coarse grained approach to integration - something that scales better than fine grained access.

Nothing in REST requires or precludes an equivalent to WSDL.  However, nothing in WSDL today models the interaction that is typical of WSDL itself: "at this address is a document of a given type.  If you GET it, you will find a strongly typed description of another resource (endpoint)".

Anybody with experience in database design will tell you that it makes sense to focus a lot of energy on optimizing reads.  The web does this well.

Other principles that apply: all persistent resources have identifiers.  No implicit state.

I have further thoughts posted at REST+SOAP.  I'd also point to The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing, but alas, it has gone 404.  (The concept of 404 itself is an important implication of a REST design).

The rest is noise

The rest is noise 07/05/2004 10:45 PM
The Rest is Noise : New Yorker music critic Alex Ross' blog.
Also: A C Douglas. Jessica Duchen. Greg Sandow. Michael Brooke. The Rambler.

REST Roundup

REST Roundup 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

REST & SOAP

REST & SOAP 11/08/2002 04:05 AM
A presentation summarizing REST and SOAP by Peter Drayton, Program Manager (CLR), Microsoft.

The thesis for my talk was that this area of intersection (RESTful SOAP) is actually a good thing, as it provides an opportunity for SOAP to learn valuable architectural lessons from REST, and an opportunity for REST to benefit from SOAP's widespread acceptance among corporate developers.

Powerpoint version.

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The Beauty of REST

The Beauty of REST 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Through his LibraryLookup project, Jon Udell finds that you don't need to understand what REST is in order to benefit from its use in a system.

iTunes for the rest of us

iTunes for the rest of us 12/16/2003 06:33 PM
Apple must open the iTunes Music Store internationally, or risk losing the market share it has gained in the digital music market it created. As more and more competitors -- some of them very recognizable and powerful names -- enter the market supporting Microsoft's Windows Media file format, Apple will have a hard time convincing consumers that the iPod, which doesn't support the Windows Media format, is worth buying. Because Apple already has the dominant market share in the U.S.,...

Rest Awhile

Rest Awhile 02/01/2005 10:07 PM
Yeah, the rumors are true. After three years of this site, I've decided to give it a rest. Being pigeonholed...

Reader: Where are Web tools for the rest
of us?

Reader: Where are Web tools for the rest
of us? 08/11/2004 01:02 AM
ZDNet Aug 11 2004 5:32AM GMT

No Day Of Rest For Internet Shoppers

No Day Of Rest For Internet Shoppers 04/02/2005 09:19 AM
Sky.com - Sat Apr 2, 11:39 am GMT

US Vs Rest Of The World Spelling

US Vs Rest Of The World Spelling 04/14/2005 03:10 PM

Day-Of-Rest Law Worries Va. Employers
(AP)

Day-Of-Rest Law Worries Va. Employers
(AP) 07/01/2004 01:59 PM
AP - Because of a legislative oversight, a new Virginia law requires businesses to give workers Saturdays or Sundays off if they want it, alarming some businesses with weekend and round-the-clock shifts to cover.

A Picture is worth ... well, you know
the rest...

A Picture is worth ... well, you know
the rest... 04/27/2004 11:48 AM
A Picture's Worth :: a slightly different kind of photo blog -- a single (often excellent) photo, accompanied by a short (often poignant) essay which explains the emotions, memories or thoughts that the photograph triggers for the photographer.

Zero Gravity Flights for the Rest of Us

Zero Gravity Flights for the Rest of Us 09/14/2004 02:28 PM

Where's Windows Installer 3.0 for the
Rest of Us?

Where's Windows Installer 3.0 for the
Rest of Us? 09/09/2004 06:02 PM

Better Than the Rest- Hiring Specialists

Better Than the Rest- Hiring Specialists 06/24/2005 03:04 PM

Star Hunting for the Rest of Us

Star Hunting for the Rest of Us 04/18/2005 04:53 AM
An amateur astronomer confirms the discovery of a supernova with an online telescope. Web-based scopes may be leveling the playing field between amateurs and the big boys. By Amit Asaravala.

REST microkernal and XML app server

REST microkernal and XML app server 03/06/2004 01:50 AM

This seems really cool. These new kinds of servers are gonna be a key part of our collective future.

The 1060 REST microkernel and XML app server. 1060 NetKernel Suhail Ahmed alerted me, via email, to a really interesting project called NetKernel, from 1060 Research. The docs describe it as "a commercial open-source realisation of the HP Dexter project." Here's the skinny:

Today's Web-servers and Application Servers have a relatively flat interface which creates a hard boundary between Web and non-Web. This boundary defines the zone of URI addressable resources.

What if the REST interface (URI address space) didn't end at the edge of your external interface?

NetKernel uses REST-like service interfaces for all software components. The services are fully encapsulated in modules which export a public URI address space. A module may import other module's address spaces, in this way service libraries may be combined into applications. [NetKernel Essentials]

What if, indeed? I downloaded the 20MB NetKernel JAR file, installed the system, and took it for a spin. Fascinating concept. As advertised, it offers a suite of XML services -- including XSLT, and the Saxon implementation of XQuery -- in a composable architecture based on URIs. These include the familiar http: and file: plus NetKernel's own active: which is a URI scheme for NetKernel processes scheduled by the "REST microkernel." ... [Jon's Radio] [Ted Ritzer: BizBlog]

Webs At Rest and In Motion

Webs At Rest and In Motion 07/10/2002 06:53 PM
Kendall Clark reports on best practices for web application design as discussed on the REST mailing list.

The Rest of Sony's USB Drives

The Rest of Sony's USB Drives 06/21/2004 12:22 PM

I guess that Pocket Bit Pro 2GB USB hard drive wasn't the only USB device announced by Sony today, although the rest are these Yet Another Flash Drives, which Sony has updated across the line. The Pocket Bit U-Mini D (USM-D) are 30 percent smaller than previous models in sizes up to 256MB. The USM-F include a fingerprint sensor for security, although it only comes in a 128MB flavor. The USB-BMS is a 128MB model that includes a Memory Stick PRO slot, which would make it a bit more handy than just a generic Memory Stick PRO reader, if that's the flash memory format you're locked into you've chosen. And finally, the USM-E, which isn't really that special except that it's the largest of them all, capacity-wise, at 512MB.
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Sony Pocket Bit Pro, 2GB USB Hard Drive [Gizmodo]

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of
the year.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of
the year. 12/31/2004 12:53 PM
January Is......
Family Fit Lifestyle Month....International Creativity Month....International Balance Month....N ational Be On Purpose Month....National Clean Up Your Computer Month....Get Organized Month....Nat ional High-Tech Month....National Hot Tea Month....National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month....National Reaching Your Potential Month....Oatm eal Month....National Walk Your Pet Month....Eradica tion of Colonialism Month....National Radon Action Month....National Clean Out Your Desk Month....National Birth Defects Prevention Month....National Bread Machine Baking Month....Autism Awareness Month....National Eye Care Month....National Glaucoma Awareness Month....National Soup Month....Fat Free Living Month....Reminiscence Month....and much more.

U.S. Wireless Use Behind Rest of World
(AP)

U.S. Wireless Use Behind Rest of World
(AP) 12/19/2004 02:58 PM
AP - On a trip on the Tokyo subway last year, almost everyone ignored the young man talking on one wireless phone, messaging with another and juggling a third.

Features: REST Reporting

Features: REST Reporting 03/14/2005 05:44 PM
Eric Gropp describes the design of a REST web service for creating paper reports using XSLT and XSLFO.

Focus On The Rest Of Your Life

Focus On The Rest Of Your Life 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
When you have free time to play or to create, how do you spend your time? By Daniel H. Steinberg (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)
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