3 days ago
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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13 days 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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2 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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2 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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4 month ago
deusx : Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms - "Create HTML POST forms that allow your web site visitors to upload files into your S3 account using a standard web browser."
Simon Willison : Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms - Browser Uploads to S3 using HTML POST Forms. I didn’t know you could do this: create a regular HTML form that gives people permission to upload direct to your own S3 bucket, using a signed JSON policy statement in a hidden form field to prevent third
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9 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : put a proxy in front - put a proxy in front: proxy wisdom from joshua
wearehugh : joshua's blog: put a proxy in front
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9 month ago
wearehugh : Ajaxian » IE8 Compatibility with X-UA-Compatible
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9 month ago
Rod Begbie : SimpleDbIntro - boto - Google Code - My SimpleDB account got enabled yesterday, so I'm looking forward to getting stuck into it. This looks like a handy Python library for accessing it (and the other Amazon Web Services) #
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10 month ago
nelson : SimpleDB analyzed - Ryan explains what Amazon's SimpleDB really is
Andy Baio : Ryan Barrett's thoughts on SimpleDB - still catching up from my NYC trip, this was the best writeup I've seen so far
Jeremy Zawodny : Amazon SimpleDB thoughts - Amazon SimpleDB thoughts: a good overview of Amazon's SimpleDB service
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10 month ago
nelson : Amazon SimpleDB - I give Amazon credit; they're doing very exciting things with web services
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10 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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13 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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13 month ago
WillPate : ConceptShare - Design collaboration made easy - I work here now :)
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13 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet: Marc does a pretty good job of laying out a way to think about Internet platforms
Linkorama : The three kinds of net platforms - 1:platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services. 2 platform's apps run elsewhere, but inject functionality into the platform via a plug-in API. 3: apps run inside the platform itself
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15 month ago
wearehugh : Megginson Technologies: Quoderat » Blog Archive » Protecting web sites and services from DNS rebinding attacks
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16 month ago
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | RESTify DayTrader
deusx : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | RESTify DayTrader - "Why build a RESTful web service for DayTrader? Because I frequently hear that REST can't be applied to complex situations."
Simon Willison : RESTify DayTrader - RESTify DayTrader. Killer REST case study from Joe Gregorio.
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17 month ago
jcgregorio : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Do we need WADL?
wearehugh : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Do we need WADL?
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17 month ago
jcgregorio : Gloves - REST comment - Brilliant REST comment in the Gloves thread.
deusx : Recipe for creating your own Rails-like web framework (reddit.com) - "In a nutshell, that's what it's like for a SOAP/XML-RPC/WS-* programmer to discover REST."
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17 month ago
deusx : » REST Battles SOAP for the Future of Information Services | Newton’s Theory | ZDNet.com - "Anyone who is looking at integrating any sort of information service needs to at least consider REST."
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17 month ago
Linkorama : RESTful Web Services - RESTful Web Services, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, was published this month.
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17 month ago
nelson : Turning off an API? - How to cleanly shut down a service
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18 month ago
Simon Willison : The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.. I normally avoid linking to “top 10” lists on principle, but this one pulls together some great resources and adds some extra context to each one.
jcgregorio : The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - Doesn't cover Google or eBay, but still a good list.
jimray : The top 10 presentations on how to scale websites - Flickr, Bloglines, Vox, etc - learn how to build strong sites
bmilleare : The top 10 presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.
nelson : System scaling - Collection of videos on how they make systems scale
joshua : A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.
philgyford : Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more. - The kind of thing I keep meaning to read up on. (via Kottke)
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18 month ago
wearehugh : O'Reilly Radar > Six Basic Truths of Free APIs
jimray : Six basic truths about free APIs - "Free APIs are not a god-given right"
deusx : O'Reilly Radar > Six Basic Truths of Free APIs - "Amazon and Google have recently shattered a common misconception: that free APIs are a commons of goodies to be built on top of for fun and profit, like open source software."
factoryjoe : O'Reilly Radar > Six Basic Truths of Free APIs - Nat debunks 6 myths of Free APIs. Tags: apis, business models, open apis
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18 month ago
jimray : Digg releases their official API - "Determine whether a story, identified by its URL, has been submitted to Digg and, if so, get details like the number of Diggs and comments it has received" - pretty awesome
deusx : Digg API - "The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg."
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18 month ago
deusx : Scraping Well-Constructed Web Domains (Like Ficlets) | dev.aol.com - "Is there a Ficlets API? A Ficlets web service? No. Yet, the very construction of the pages creates an API, that can be queried and read, "scraped" if you will... But scraped with a difference."
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