RESTful.NET Fundamentals

Monday, September 15, 2008 6:58:20 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Besides working on my RESTful.NET book, I'm also working with Aaron to build a course on REST and WCF for Pluralsight.

We're excited that the course is now up and will have its first run in November (the 19th-21st to be exact) at the Microsoft MTC in Boston - so sign up today!

Everyone who attends will get a copy of my new book as well, so come and learn about REST!

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Stockholm BizTalk User Group - thanks guys!

Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:18:54 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

I just got back from two weeks in Denmark and Sweden. Had a great time, met a number of really interesting and smart people and all my host's hospitality was just incredible!

For those of you that came to the talk I did on REST at the Stockholm BizTalk User Group meeting - here is the code and the slides

stockholmbtug.zip (796.71 KB)

Also - I just have to say, this group is one of the best User Groups I've ever spoken at. From the travel to the talk itself it was a great experience. Thanks again!

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Hi-REST , Lo-REST didn't we already decide this?

Sunday, September 07, 2008 10:55:18 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

I've seen a number of posts, videos, and now a conference talk abstract talking about Lo-REST versus Hi-REST

I thought this was already a closed issue

See Dare's post

There isn't anything that is "Lo-REST", there are services that follow the constraints of the REST architectural style, and those that don't (sometimes those that don't have a good reason not to)

Some of this seems to revolve around some clients not supporting all verbs, this is easily fixed with the X-HTTP-Method-Override HTTP header

My next post hopefully will show how easy this is to implement using WCF extensibility.

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Slides and Code from UserGroup meeting

Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:36:31 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Had a really fun time at the San Gabriel Valley .NET User Group meeting last night, great crowd for a Wed night in August!

As I promised to them - here are the slides:

rest1.pdf (666.35 KB)

and the code:

SGVNUG.zip (11.18 KB)

Thanks again to everyone there - its always a fun group to speak at.

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Explaining Roy Fielding's Dissertation to my Wife - Roy is to REST as Dizzy is to Bebop (theoretically)

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:08:46 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

My lovely wife Shannon is helping to do proof-reading on my book, and today she was working on the preface.

One of the things I talk about in the preface is about Roy Fielding, and how his dissertationis really a named codification of the architecture of the Web

She said to me "This really bugs me, why does someone get credit for just naming and distilling something that already exists"

I replied with "Well - naming things is important and he was part of the effort to create the thing (the Web) so he should get some of the credit"

She said "Hmm - I still don't get it, can you give me an example from outside of the world of technology"

I said "Imagine when bebop was being created as a genre of music. Think about Dizzy Gillespie, imagine he wrote a paper in about 1950 describing bebop, how it worked, and what went into creating it, and how to tell bebop from other forms of jazz based on chord structures, etc."

That made sense to her, so I thought I would blog about it. :-)

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REST posts

Sunday, August 17, 2008 5:11:35 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Now that I'm done with the major writing portion of my book, I'm going to try to post more.

Many of my posts will be about the technical details of using REST and WCF (the main thrust of my book).

I'm going to also start some linking to other blogs, which in the past I've kind of stayed away from.

The purpose of these links will be to try to bring some of the ideas of REST that exist outside of windows and .NET developers, to the .NET developer's space.
The post I am linking to today is by Steve Vinoski. Steve is a pretty interesting person, having worked at a company that built RPC systems for many years, he is now building software for a company (I think we still don't know what the company is or what it does.
The point of his post today is one that I have found to be pretty true. People that actually has built a system with REST versus SOAP/RPC aren't the ones out there saying that SOAP/RPC is superior to REST (or the typical "I just don't get why I'd care about REST").

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