Category Archives: REST

Sorry Mark; URL Design DOES matter!

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

I was planning to blog something else today, but Mark Nottingham of Yahoo made a statement about URL Design [1] in his post entitled REST Issues, Real and Imagined and I simply could not let his statement without comment. But first … Continue reading →

Posted in All Organizations, Internet Professionals, REST, SoapBox, Teachers, URIs | 3 Comments

PayPal’s New API: So Close, Yet So Far

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

I got an email from the PayPal Developer Network today announcing PayPal’s new “NVP” (or “Name-Value Pair“) API. Clearly they’ve learned that the complexity of SOAP is counter productive to adoption. Here’s what the email had to say about their … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Framework Developers, Leading Companies, REST, SOAP, SoapBox, Web Developers, Website Owners | 2 Comments

About URI Templates

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

Probably one of the most interesting projects related to URL Design on which anyone is currently working is the URI Templates project spearheaded by Joe Gregorio of IBM. While not sexy and not something most end users will ever see, infrastructure … Continue reading →

Posted in Internet Professionals, Proposals, REST, Sitemaps, SoapBox, Software Vendors, URI Templates, URL Rewriters, URL Virtualization | 2 Comments