March 2007 - Don Box's Spoutlet

Don Box's Spoutlet

Syndication

  • More on GET

    Sam makes an excellent point in response to my “ it's GET, stupid ” post from earlier this week. I too worry that there's too much emphasis on “uniform interface/CRUD” out there and too little on what it means to embrace GET (the...
  • mnot on REST

    Mark has a nice post on REST issues . Mark gives me too much credit for the lo-rest/hi-rest terminology - I saw it in a Nelson Minnar/Google deck and assumed that it was implicitly “not evil.” Little did I know... More to the point, I completely...
  • Mix 07

    SMaine and I are giving a talk at MIX this year . Last year, I did exactly one public talk at a PLDI workshop on Transactional Memory. This year, I'm doing a lot more. MVP summit (internal) next week. Mix in April. TechEd (channeling through ChrisAn)...
  • Vinoski

    My blogging is erratic, so I often respond late to things. One of those things is Steve Vinoski leaving Iona . Steve has long been on my short list of guys I'd love to hire. Super-talented engineer. Great technical chops. Strong BS filter. Clear thinker...
  • GET and Humans vs. Machines

    Mark has an interesting post on the (lack of) requirements for humans in the face of GET . No matter where you land on the REST spectrum, I think it's very easy to make the case for GET as an exceedingly common idiom in “machine facing” scenarios...