12 days ago
deusx : PUT vs POST in RESTful Web Service « vincenthome’s Tech Clips - "This explains when to use POST or PUT for creating new resources. The answer ultimately lies in who is responsible for determining the new resource’s URI. If the client is in charge, the client can use PUT to the new URI (like we did for user acco
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nelson : 1,000 Web APIs - Nice directory of APIs. Surprised that as much as 22% of them are SOAP. Sorry!
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deusx : Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - REST API Design: Invent Media Types, Not Protocols and Understand the Importance of Hyperlinks - "links should be used for describing relationships between resources in the various payloads instead of expecting hard coded URL structures. Again, I'm drawn to the example of RSS & Atom feeds where link relations are used for defining the p
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deusx : REST APIs must be hypertext-driven » Untangled - "What needs to be done to make the REST architectural style clear on the notion that hypertext is a constraint? In other words, if the engine of application state (and hence the API) is not being driven by hypertext, then it cannot be RESTful and can
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Simon Willison : Versioning REST Web Services - Versioning REST Web Services. Peter Williams suggests using a vendor MIME media type in the Accept header to specify a required API version, because embedding the API version in the URL itself leads to a single resource ending up with many different URL
deusx : Peter Williams - Versioning REST Web Services - "Changes to REST/HTTP web service interfaces come it three basic flavors, changes to the properties associated with a type of resource, additions of new types of resources and deprecation of obsolete types of resources. If you are following the HATEO
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3 month ago
deusx : ongoing · Learning REST - "I was talking to a colleague who has to become savvy in a hurry about modern Web applications and he asked “How do I learn about REST?” Good question. I thought of a couple of suggestions, then asked Twitter and got some more. Here they are.&quo
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5 month ago
deusx : Request Weblog #Frog: REST Request - "But on a technical level, the point is not that "whatever!" is evil. The point is that if you chip a piece off "whatever!" and make it mean something specific, you can optimize around the constraints and reap the benefits."
Rod Begbie : REST Request - Another handy REST post. The API I'm building at work currently only uses GET & POST, this helps explain that it's still "RESTful" [via] #
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5 month ago
deusx : Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Explaining REST to Damien Katz - "At this point, the benefits of building RESTful services for the Web should be self evident. The Web has a particular architecture and it makes sense that if you are deploying a service or API on the Web then it should take advantage of this archite
Simon Willison : Explaining REST to Damien Katz - Explaining REST to Damien Katz. I didn’t know that it was Mark Baker back in 2002 who first pointed out that SOAP was flawed because it ignored the architecture of the Web as defined by Roy Fielding’s Ph.D thesis.
Rod Begbie : Explaining REST to Damien Katz - A good "Wherefore REST?" post. [via] #
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5 month ago
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The role of REST in Cloud Computing
deusx : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | The role of REST in Cloud Computing - "I am in no way saying that AtomPub is the solution. What I am pointing out is that if you want federation then you need to design your protocols and APIs RESTfully. In this example it is hypertext, link following, in the AtomPub spec that allows the
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6 month ago
joshua : beyond rest - an additional idea past kellan and rabble's xmpp ideas
deusx : joshua's blog: beyond rest - "In some ways this is slightly more elegant than the XMPP solution as neither side has to maintain a dedicated long-running process. ... There are a number of people on inexpensive service providers who have at best web scripting hosting and not much
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8 month ago
mmb : http://tinydb.org/ - http://tinydb.org/ via programming: new: tinydb.org — similar to tinypic, but for chunks of XML / JSON data [via]
deusx : tinydb.org - "store some tiny data in a tiny url"
Andy Baio : TinyDB, store tiny data in a tiny URL - store variables with a POST or GET, get it back in JSON or XML [via]
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11 month ago
nelson : The tired REST soldier - A bit crazy to personalize this so much, but glad Mark feels a victory
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12 month ago
deusx : Blinksale | Blinksale API - "The API follows the REST style, and this guide should provide everything you need to implement software that works with Blinksale."
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12 month ago
deusx : Ian Bicking: a blog :: Documents vs. Objects - "Resources and objects are in many ways similar, but in other ways completely opposite."
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13 month ago
deusx : InfoQ: A Brief Introduction to REST - "In this article, I will try to provide a pragmatic introduction to REST and RESTful HTTP application integration without digressing into this debate"
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15 month ago
deusx : Reactions to the ESB Question :: Steve Vinoski’s Blog - "At the end of the day, if you want to ignore my advice on using REST and dynamic languages, that’s your own problem. ... All I know is that I’m using them very successfully as part of what I’m working on these days, and it’s simply glorious.
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16 month ago
deusx : Blogging From Berkeley: Session State is Evil - "So stop asking the server to "hold on to things" for you. Please. If you do that one simple thing when you build an application architecture, you have freed the server infrastructure; you have given it wings."
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16 month ago
deusx : Sam Ruby: Introducing Basura - "It is my hope that eventually there will be as many clients and servers implementing this interface as there are for XMPP."
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17 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Google Search API for research - Google Search API for research: "The Google Search API -- which, after deteriorating badly, was shut down about a year ago -- has been reborn in a version only available to researchers..."
nelson : Google search API for research - There is a supported way to do search requests to Google, for research purposes. It's a simple RESTish API
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17 month ago
deusx : URI Template - draft-gregorio-uritemplate-01 - "URI Templates are strings that can be transformed into URIs after embedded variables are substituted. This document defines the syntax and processing of URI Templates."
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17 month ago
wearehugh : Megginson Technologies: Quoderat » Blog Archive » Protecting web sites and services from DNS rebinding attacks
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18 month ago
deusx : XML.com: Introducing OpenSearch - "You go to your favorite Web 2.0 search engine and set up a query like http://web20.example.com/search=john+doe&ouptut=atom and search for "john doe," but rather than getting back results as the usual HTML web page, you get it back in A
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18 month ago
nelson : Eve Online API - CCP has always been supportive of third party stuff, now they've got more API to get personal data out of the game
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18 month ago
Simon Willison : Wesabi: Your bank has a REST API now - Wesabi: Your bank has a REST API now. Excellent—I’ve been saying for a while now that I’d really love to be able to program my bank account.
Rod Begbie : Your bank has a REST API now (shhh! -- don't tell them) - Wesabe have created an open API to allow folks to hack on their bank account data. I foresee some stonking visualization work coming out of this that will put Quicken, Microsoft Money, etc to shame. [via] #
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18 month ago
jcgregorio : The Cafes » North and South - While REST will go on to become an economic powerhouse with steadily increasing standards of living for all its citizens, WS-* is doomed to sixty+ years of starvation, poverty, tyranny, and defections until it eventually collapses from its own fundamental
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