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Weblog:   Why REST is BEST articles
Subject:   RESTing easy
Date:   2005-03-31 09:52:56
From:   mentata
I became aware of the acronym REST from O'Reilly weblogs about three years ago, and was pleased to find a name for something I'd been doing since my first open source outing. I exploited characteristics of the protocols I was using to define a simple grammar for URIs, whereby you could get automatic responses in various formats from hyperlinks. I've changed a lot of things since then, but this aspect of my systems has only been leveraged more because it's simple, intuitive, and powerful. I honestly don't understand why there's still considered any controversy, and hope you'll all move on soon.


But since I'm always doing my own thing, I'm not considered part of these conversations so, as usual, who cares what I think? I've been committed to thoroughly original software work, but that appears to go against the grain of the O'Reilly community's penchant for buzzwords, acronyms, vendor paradigms, and fad development tools. I was recently notified that my proposal for OSCON was rejected, which is fine; it's the conference organizers' prerogative to determine what's useful and interesting. Unfortunately, the truth is I can see in my log files that nobody even looked at what I proposed. Well it's sad to report that narcissism, NIH syndrome, and lazy imaginations appear to have beaten this Artur Clennam out, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. I know the value of what I'm working on and I've got better things to do, so I'm off.


Enjoy your world. Sorry I couldn't contribute.