RESTful Web Services by Leonard Richardson & Sam Ruby.
REST is nothing new, it’s been around for at least five years, but it’s getting a lot of play right now, maybe because some of the big players like Google are deprecating their SOAP services.
For a readable explanation of REST as a web services architecture, see this .ppt presentation at xfront.com by Roger L. Costello and Timothy D. Kehoe: http://www.xfront.com/REST-full.ppt.
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Clean Up, Finally
The fall cleanup made it to the transfer station today, but it took three trips.
On the last of these, Peter loaded and then unloaded nine boxes of books, about half of the library which I’ve been stupidly transporting all these years. This included a massive set of the Encyclopedia Britannica – Peter says you can buy the digital version now for only $70 – and some outdated computer books.
I was able to either recycle or donate most of it, thanks to a new service that reuses CDs and the old reliable services that recycle books, plastics, paper, metal, glass, cardboard and chipboard.
I’m still nursing my leg, so took the rest of the day pretty easy. Earlier this evening, I cooked a small pork loin, mashed potatoes and homemade applesauce with cranberries and maple syrup, enough for at least three meals.
I picked up the cranberries yesterday at Makepeace’s annual festival, which was a lot of fun and educational as well.
Today was cool and cloudy, a nice contrast to yesterday which was a little too warm for October.
One of the Best….
articles I’ve seen on ASP.NET internals: http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/iis/ASPNETInternalsIISAndTheProcessModel.aspx
Closet Philosophy
I’ve been cleaning out a closet for the last couple of days, and even though very little has actually made it to the transfer station, am starting to see progress.
I’m about on track with the 80/20 rule: 75% of the “stuff” is sorted, and most of this is recyclable or donate-able, like shoes and clothes, some in very good shape.
I’ve even found a couple of things that I can use, like a pottery wind chime and a travel alarm clock.
I don’t usually like making trips down memory lane, but this one has been painless, at least psychically: I’ve had only one good leg to work with.
The intimidating part of this exercise, though, is that it’s taking a while just to clean out one closet. I’ll eventually have to do the same to the entire house, plus about half the basement.
It is a consolation that closets are the worst because they’re the places for stuffing clutter.
Truly Random Thoughts
The spin-off from Geico’s clever Caveman commercials was, as predicted, a train wreck (or car wreck).
Wisdom, from Shelley
I’ve been a Shelley Powers fan for years.
This, from her essay for O’Reilly’s Women in Technology series:
I’ve long felt that the IT field is one of the few where the participants are focused on the tools, rather than the tasks. I believe that integrating IT into the engineering field as a complete and separate discipline was a huge mistake
October
It’s the first of October, and definitely time to think about Halloween and Thanksgiving.
This past weekend, Emme, James and I went to the Harvest Fest at the Fairgrounds. It’s a mellow, homely, wholesome event, and I look forward to it every year.
Intentional Ugliness
I wonder if spammers, big company executives, advertisers and corporate attorneys were all spawned from the same wretched source, maybe Zeus’s backside rather than his head.
What a wonderful world it would be if they would all simply – disappear.
Homely Archeology
I was asked to fill out a ton of paperwork this week, and most of it hit the fan yesterday afternoon which, one notes, was warm and humid, not the sort of day for house cleaning.
One of the documents requested was my college diploma. This is the sort of thing that one does not use every day, so it was not in plain sight or in an obvious spot.
I finally found it, in a cardboard box which was only one of many pulled out of a closet, along with ancient collection dolls, shoes, old computer equipment and disks, and useless banking records.
So at this point, I’m staring at several piles of boxes and stuff, not all of it mine, but most of it destined for a different, perhaps better, place than here.
Easy Come, Easy 90% Go
I’ve been holding on to an old, pre-IPO stock certificate for the last seven years and realized earlier this week that the company went public this past February.
Unfortunately, the company effected a reverse split at the time, so my shares were worth only about 10% of what I’d figured.
Well, it’s still “found money”, and maybe the shares will be worth something to my grandkids some day.