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RESTpectful comparison of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data APIs
Dare has written up RESTpectful comparison of the programming models of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data API for querying relational data over the web (RESTful data services). Both these APIs also happen to support operations for changing the...
Astoria podcast - Jon Udell interviews Pablo Castro
Here's something I've been looking forward to for a while - Jon Udell interviewing Pablo Castro on the topic of Astoria . After the interview Jon wrote : "I’m not even close to being an expert in the underlying data access technologies, including ADO...
REST / ROA / Astoria / SOA
Jon Udell, rightly so, is getting excited about the new book RESTful Web Services , by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby - a book I myself got excited about in November ( REST Web Services and ROA ) when I wrote at the time: "My bet is that this project...
Posted: May 24 2007, 04:46 PM by alexbarnett | with 6 comment(s)
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Mashup design patterns
<warning: the following post meanders , is unstrucutured and doesn't arrive at any conclusion> In the middle of last year, I invited Dion to meet with me and other members of Microsoft's Data Programmability team to discuss REST in the context of...
Bungee Labs - interviews on Podtech
Brad Baldwin of Rocky Mountain Voices , popped over to the Bungee Labs offices a couple of weeks back and recorded two video interviews for Podtech . Here they are: Bungee Labs and Their Ajax-Based IDE "After years of working with developers at Microsoft...
it's the URI, stupid
Steve Maine: with GET and INVOKE, it's the URI, stupid. yes, formats matter Read more at http://hyperthink.net/blog/ PermaLink,guid,40c0cf83-27b1-49e7-8086-c57d1b5007cd.aspx Via http://devhawk.net/2007/05/10/Morning+Coffee+76.aspx !
Posted: May 12 2007, 09:07 AM by alexbarnett | with no comments
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Interview with Pablo Castro on Astoria - Data Services for the Web
I caught up with Pablo Castro, who announced Codename Astoria - Data Services for the Web earlier today at MIX07 . Here's the video of our chat together. In the meantime, there have been a number of blog posts commenting on the Astoria announcement via...
Microsoft Codename "Astoria": Data Services for the Web
Pablo Castro has announced a very cool project , Microsoft Codename "Astoria": Data Services for the Web. So, if: You build data-aware web applications (are there web devs that don't?) You are interested in data access over the web (data over the web...
I'll be at MIX07
I'll be heading down to MIX07 tomorrow. Let me know if you want to hook up (ping me at ) There will be a torrent of Microsoft product announcements over the next few days - Sam Sethi has made a number of predictions on what some of these will be....
Announcing Bungee Connect
At last, I can tell you more about what Bungee Labs has been up to... We've just announced details about Bungee Connect, a 100% on-demand web development and deployment environment that will be going into Beta phase in May. Over the next three days...
Does REST need a WSDL?
First read this (written by Marc Hadley ) "This article describes the Web Application Description Language (WADL). An increasing number of Web-based enterprises (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Flickr - to name but a few) are developing HTTP-based applications...
1 in 4 Developers To Get RESTed
AJAXWorld has reported a couple of interesting data points from Evans Data Corp’s latest Web Services Development Survey (the article refers to the Spring 2006 survey - I think this is a typo as the Winter 2006 Survey has come out). First, The REST...
Posted: Feb 22 2007, 11:12 AM by alexbarnett | with 2 comment(s)
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Hyperdata, interoperable data web and other loosely related concepts
Apologies in advance. I'm attempting to couple loosely related threads here...I have no conclusion. Leigh Dobbs originally published Connecting Social Content Services using FOAF, RDF and REST for XTech 2005, where he analysed a sample of eight APIs...
REST Web Services and ROA
REST Web Services , a book in progress by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby piqued my interest yesterday. From the introduction: "We want to restore the World Wide Web to its rightful place as a respected architecture for distributed programming. We...
Alex Barnett Podcasts
Alex Barnett Podcasts - I like podcasting, here are the links to them. 2008 - Podcasts for the Bungee Line Nate Bowler, CTO of @Task , July 20 2008 @task (or AtTask ) is a Utah-based tech company providing a comprehensive, web-based project and portfolio...
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