GoRuCo Rocked

by Dan Yoder on Jun 06, 2009

First, for those of you who haven’t heard, I’ve left AT&T Interactive and am now with new startup, SharesPost.com. (Launch is coming soon.) And, no, it isn’t running on Waves. At least, not yet. More on this momentarily.

Second, some thoughts on the recent GoRuCo, held at Pace University in Manhattan … to begin with, awesome. That is how you do it. I haven’t been to all the regional RubyConfs, but I’ve been to several, as well as the national conference, and many smaller non-Ruby conferences. They all tend to suffer from one common malady: too many talks and too little socializing. Furthermore, there just aren’t enough women involved. I realize this has become topical lately, but I’ve always thought the imbalance in the technical world (not just Ruby Nation) was ridiculous.

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REST FTW, Part 3

by Dan Yoder on May 03, 2009

In my last post, I suggested thinking about REST and ROA in the context of an object-based platform and protocol neutral approach to distributed computing. The "objects" are the specific representations (MP3, JSON, HTML) of a resource. The semantics of a resource itself are intentionally vague because you never interact with them directly, at least from the standpoint of ROA. This ensures that the "platform neutral" part of the bargain is never compromised.

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REST FTW, Part 2

by Dan Yoder on Apr 21, 2009

REST is not an architecture, but a set of constraints for an architecture. I like to use the phrase Resource-Oriented Architecture to talk about the specific Web-based architecture that satisfies those constraints. But the main thing to remember is that these are constraints for a bandwidth-optimizing object-based distributed computing architecture that is both platform and protocol neutral. In that light, one thing that should be clear is that REST therefore applies to pretty much everything Web developers do these days.

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REST FTW, Part 1

by Dan Yoder on Apr 21, 2009

Lately, in my talks on Waves and how it supports RESTful architectures, I've found I've had to take a step back and talk more about what REST is and why it matters.

This is a bit surprising, since REST has been on the buzzword bingo card for years now. However, it turns out that most of what has passed for RESTful is really what I have come to call REST-lite. Essentially, REST-lite focused on the verbs of the HTTP protocol and (more or less) ignores ... well, the rest.

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Speaking At GoRuCo

by Dan Yoder on Apr 05, 2009

I’m very happy to announce that I’ll be speaking on Waves at GoRuCo in The Big Apple (specifically, Pace University in Lower Manhattan) on May 31st. I love Manhattan (or, at least, I love visiting there) and I really enjoy these smaller conferences. I wanted to speak at last year’s GoRuCo but narrowly missed the deadline because I had been completely immersed in getting the first version of Waves out the door.

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