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Learn a dynamic language now. Why? Because you can do more with less code and get better quality too. How can you argue with that?
Where does the benefit come from? First, the languages are less ve...

Bill deHora has a great response to one of my (somewhat) recent REST posts. The timing is perfect, because I've been thinking a lot about what I said in those posts. I've also just finished reading...

I haven't been reading or writing much lately - too heads down getting to 1.0. But I did happen across Don's recent post about retiring the four tenets of SOA and asking for input on what we'd like...

My recent posts are my attempt to describe how I think about the Web and how it can be leveraged to integrate systems independent of the browser. I got a ton of feedback in comments and email, whic...

I've gotten several comments saying that, at the end of the day, REST is just RPC. That's wrong, for at least 3 very reasons:
1) Each unique state in your protocol state machine has its own URI. Th...

Ittay commented on my REST post:
the thing is, when you write software, you use an RPC model. what bothers me about REST is that it is not only an API. it enforces you to change your programming mo...

I got a lot of great comments on last nights post, including a couple about REST being no different from xml-based RPC. I used to think so too, which is why my recent epiphany was so eye opening.
C...

Yeah, I'm alive. And I remember the password to my blog. I've been away for a bit, working on something very cool involving the TV. If all goes well, you'll hear about it in a big way. Anyway, I'm ...

I heard about Excel Services a while ago, but hadn't had any time to look at them even briefly until now. Basically, it's a server-side system that lets you access data and calculations in Excel sp...

One of the last things I did before leaving the MSDN team was to prototype a Web service for retrieving content programmatically. It's been a while since then, but a production version is now live....