If being a REST advocate makes me cool by association, does reading Bill de hÓra’s blog make me smart by association?
Bill’s Matchstick Men post is making a bit of a stir out there. I can’t embellish on it, but I like the double entendre of his use of the phrase “matchstick men.” And Bill’s comment to Dan Diephouse needs pointing out in case it goes unnoticed: “I think we need to talk about how “REST as in the HTTP Web, sucks”, before it becomes another silver bullet.” Hear, hear!
Bill de hÓra | 09-Apr-07 at 12:51 pm | Permalink
Dumb and Dumber…
Dumb: I bought two books recently. One was called “Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics” and was reading it over the weekend. Or trying to. By the time I got to the material on Bayesian, I was getting lost. However this……
Assaf | 09-Apr-07 at 3:59 pm | Permalink
To qualify for “Cool By Association” you need to present evidence that you:
a) Ignored HTTP verbs that have only three letters.
b) Invented at least one protocol able to abstract HTTP away.
c) Retained said inventions and extended it with a REST profile.
d) Loosely coupled that profile with a press release.
On a serious note, I used to naively think that if I inspect assumptions, put things in perspective, and review them once in a while I’d be doing good for me and those around me. I still feel that way. But I long learned that those who want to believe a silver bullet exists do not tolerate such foolishness.
Labnotes » Can you catch a silver bullet? | 11-Apr-07 at 1:30 am | Permalink
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