James on REST
Since everyone is blogging about REST I was feeling left out, so here is my post.
Think about this as ordering a Domino’s Pizza.
You make a call and you get something in return. If you do it while lying down on the recliner, that is very RESTful.
If Howard Dean is screaming for a pizza, that isn’t very RESTful.
See how simple this all is? Ordering from a lazy-boy recliner, RESTful. Having Howard Dean order the pizza, not RESTful. All this talk about ATOM, COBRA, COM, HTTP, SOA, SOAP just confuses folks (if I wasn’t so hungry I probably would have used a Simpson’s example, but you’ll have to deal with this because I’m going to order a pizza right now).
Mmmm pizza
Whew! Glad that’s cleared up.
Oh, don’t forget the beer.
Damn funny James. I’ve been wondering about all these “REST examples” people have been coming up with.
Couldn’t you have worked in the dork with white hat and iPod or the meditating babes? That would really clear things up.
The “Dork” is only for ESRI podcasts. I can’t just trot him out for anything as unimportant as REST.
It’s those kinds of standards that keep us coming back.
But how does it work with Manifold though?
Only took 7 posts!!
KoS
That depends. Intake or exhaust?
I’m confused.
Do they cache the pizzas at your house ahead of time?
Good question, maybe I should have used DiGiorno and cached them in my freezer.