On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Luciano Ramalho <luciano_at_ramalho.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:31 PM, William Denton <wtd_at_pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 1 March 2011, Bobbi Fox wrote:
>>
>>> I have been tasked with coming up with a RESTful Create, Read, Update
>>> [we're not Deleting] API to our home-grown controlled vocabulary database,
>>> "WordShack".
>>
>> I can't help you with your actual question---except to wish you good
>> luck---but have you read RESTful WEB SERVICES by Leonard Richardson and Sam
>> Ruby (O'Reilly, 2007) (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260)?
>>
>> It's excellent. You probably already know about it, but if not, it'll be a
>> big help. Not only does it explain about REST, by doing so it explains how
>> the web works. It changed how I think.
>
> That book is O, but I found it too verbose and not very practical.
O -> OK.
> IMHO, a newer, much more objective and practical approach is
> RESTful Web Services Cookbook, published by O'Reilly in 2009.
>
> RESTful Web Services Cookbook - Solutions for Improving Scalability
> and Simplicity By Subbu Allamaraju
> http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801694
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Luciano Ramalho
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Twitter: @luciano
Received on Tue Mar 01 2011 - 15:08:47 EST