A recent question at the REST in Practice discussion group, reminded me of the research work that Jim and I did on the SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL). It was an active time of discussions with the Web Services community. We really disliked WSDL and we really liked REST. We …
This is cool. O’Reilly had an ebook promotion for cyber-Monday here in the US. “REST in Practice” did very well. It was the fifth best-selling title :-) Tim O’Reilly published a blog entry about the top selling books. Not bad! :-) If you have read the book and would like …
Few interesting things happened today: I received my copy of “REST in Practice”. It wasn’t as a big moment as when my PhD thesis was printed (despite Jim’s attempts to stress me out at the final moment with his “tick tock tick” soundtrack) but it was still quite a significant …
/**/ As we announced last week, we are going to be giving away free copies of “REST in Practice” as a way of celebrating its September 24th release. After this post, every entry in the #RESTinPractice tweet stream will be saved for a period of few weeks. Every 3-4 days …
With the release of “REST in Practice” only a couple of weeks away, we asked O’Reilly to let us give few copies away :-) We just love giving things away :-) So, here’s what to expect: Jim and Ian are always busy with traveling around the globe talking about REST, …
/**/ A couple of days ago, O’Reilly sent “REST in Practice” to the (e-)printers*. It was a great milestone for Jim, Ian, and me; the end of a long road. The target date for the book’s release date is September 24th (yes, of this year :-) a sample from …
/**/ My “REST in Practice” co-authors, Jim and Ian, have been doing an amazing job at creating presentation/courseware material for the book. It’s really humble to experience the kind of interest we’ve had so far from academics, even before the book is published, based on the presentation material that we …
/**/ It’s been a loooooong road, I think it might even be more than 2 3 years. Jim and I had talked about writing a book together about the Web, its design principles, its technologies, and its potential role in distributed applications. We love working together so we wanted this …