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Microsoft is putting lots of effort into promoting HTML5 and JavaScript as key for Windows developers, and there are quite a number of high-quality libraries and frameworks available for building production-ready applications. In this article, we’ll create a basic business-oriented application that can serve as a starting point for digging deeper into the existing options—and let you experience how much fun coding quality JavaScript can be.

The REST architectural style is still intriguing me. After having discussed how PUT and POST do differ let’s move forward and learn a bit about representations, one of the key principles in REST.

Podcast

In this presentation from QCon SF 2007, Obie Fernandez explains REST and gives practical tips on how to use Rails' REST features to write RESTful applications.

Mapping CRUD operations to friendly URLs is hardly the end of the story around Restful. We came a long way since Roy Fielding seminal dissertation on REST. Inspired by Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis and Ian Robinson upcoming book on REST, Hypermedia and HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State), we came down to the “Restfulie” gem. The goal is to make it really easy to create rich, hypermedia aware resources. We can get our Rails applications and add a new layer of hypermedia to make them even more expressive and easy to communicate with. It is SOA without all the bloat, for pragmatic programmers. Restfulie was made possible thanks to Guilherme Silveira and Caue Guerra.

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A Tutorial on Web-based Services

RESTful architectures are the subject of this presentation, specifically the way they are particularly attractive in solving many financial services integration problems. Kirk will present the advantages of a RESTful architecture to develop integrated systems in the financial services arena, in particular leveraging infrastructure, skills, and systems already in place at these firms.

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There exist several good consoles for manually consuming RESTful services. These include: Simple REST Client for Chrome; REST Client for Firefox; apigee.

HATEOAS with visuals – Daemian Mack

Ian Robinson discusses how to implement a hypermedia-driven web application and how to test its workflow giving as example a RESTful web service he built on top of Microsoft’s Web API.

For the last few months, I was working closely with few customers across domains including telecom, e-learning, health care etc.. There are few recurring themes I’ve observed across the line, and I think some of them are realistic indicators regarding the adoption of WOA in the mainstream.

For many REST is a vastly misunderstood term. The experts in the REST domain know this all too well. To the point they are thinking of renaming it to separate themselves because the confusion is out of control and impossible to re-align with the true definition.

HATEOAS: The Confusing Bit from REST  

While coaching a team I found out that clearly separating CRUD and REST helps people understanding what RESTful really means: Nothing more than HTTP restrictions.