Notes"This project allows you to host a "private instance of S3" on top of Google's infrastructure (big table, etc), leveraging existing client S3 libraries and applications - no need to reinvent the wheel."Unfurl
Notes"The essence of REST is to make the states of the protocol explicit and addressible by URIs. The current state of the protocol state machine is represented by the URI you just operated on and the state representation you retrieved. You change state by operating on the URI of the state you're moving to, making that your new state. A state's representation includes the links (arcs in the graph) to the other states that you can move to from the current state. This is exactly how browser based apps work, and there is no reason that your app's protocol can't work that way too."Unfurl
Notes"This explains when to use POST or PUT for creating new resources. The answer ultimately lies in who is responsible for determining the new resourceās URI. If the client is in charge, the client can use PUT to the new URI (like we did for user accounts) and the service can return a response code of 201 (āCreatedā). However, if the service is in charge of generating the new URI, the client should POST the new resource to a factory URI like weāve done for bookmarks. Then, the service can return a response code of 201 (āCreatedā) along with the URI of the new resource in the response āLocationā header."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"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 cannot be a REST API. Period. Is there some broken manual somewhere that needs to be fixed?"FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"I was talking to a colleague who has to become savvy in a hurry about modern Web applications and he asked āHow do I learn about REST?ā Good question. I thought of a couple of suggestions, then asked Twitter and got some more. Here they are."FeedUnfurl
Notes"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."Unfurl
Notes"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 architecture instead of fighting against it. There are millions of deployed clients, servers and intermediaries that support REST and it makes sense to be compatible with their expectations. "FeedUnfurl
Notes"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 these two separate services to be linked together."Unfurl
Notes"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 elseUnfurl
Notes"The Blinksale Application Programming Interface is simply another way to access your Blinksale dataāone that makes it easy for third-party and custom tools to programatically access and interact with the service. The API follows the REST style, and this guide should provide everything you need to implement software that works with Blinksale."Unfurl
Notes"In this article, I will try to provide a pragmatic introduction to REST and RESTful HTTP application integration without digressing into this debate"Unfurl
Notes"At the end of the day, if you want to ignore my advice on using REST and dynamic languages, thatās your own problem. ... All I know is that Iām using them very successfully as part of what Iām working on these days, and itās simply glorious."Unfurl
Notes"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."FeedUnfurl
Notes"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."Unfurl
Notes"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 Atom format."Unfurl
Notes"In this Conversation with Innovators, the authors discuss what those principles are, and how to apply then in ways that make the programmable Web better - that is, "more uniform, better structured, and using the features of HTTP to greatest advantage."Unfurl
Notes"Put the main application logic into a RESTful server. This is where all the CRUD-style access to resources takes place. Then, write a second proxy ... When browser-based users need to interact with your resources, they actually connect to this proxy."Unfurl
Notes"To maintain a high level of security, the Authentication Proxy interface, AuthSub, enables the application to get an authentication token without ever handling the user's account login information."Unfurl
Notes"if a resource is tied to a single row in a table then a simple timestamp or revision number on the row is a good source of information for generating an etag"Unfurl
Notes"Note that the client doesn't get to 'know' how to construct employee URIs from employee-ids, instead it just follows links from the employee list to each employee resource."Unfurl
Notes"For status codes, if the given zipcode is not a valid one then we will return a 404 Not Found, and a PNG of a red X, otherwise we return a 200 Ok for the happy green checkmark."Unfurl
Notes"at some point some jerk will get the idea to write a shell script with a for-loop and try to fetch every single object from your system; this is definitely no fun."Unfurl
Notes"When I first started looking at URI templates I was surprised no one had written a specifiction for them yet. It seemed so simple, "just" add {name} to the URI and then substitute with a value at a later time."Unfurl
Notes"URI Templates are strings that can be transformed into URIs after embedded variables are substituted. This document defines the structure and syntax of URI Templates."Unfurl
Notes"I believe an online spreadsheet is an excellent starting point for building a mashup fabric: a document into which a range of online services can be combined."Unfurl
Notes"5 years from now, Grid services that are not already on Web will be based on instant messaging, and XMPP/Atom/RDF will be the key Grid transfer protocols and formats."Unfurl
Notes"Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers."Unfurl
Notes"Http.Autocompleter is a quick and dirty modification of Ajax.Autocompleter that a) uses GET by default, and b) takes a URI template as an argument, instead of a URI"Unfurl
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