Microformats Abuzzthe same dayAs you may have heard, Bill Gates ushered in a new era…Lo-REST: This is your REST on Crack

Regrettable Software, Tossed Salad, and Web Development2004I’ve done some reading (and posting) on the excellent ASP.NET forum and,…Okay, this one is probably going to sting a bit. But here it goes. Don Box, my hero of adventures long gone, has coined (or as much as that) a new term: Lo-rest. He provides a list of bullet points to define it, and even comes out as the first member of the newly minted congregation. Almost immediately the poision-pill meme catches on, appearing on smart people’s blogs and mailing lists.

REST Unrest2006Where did this idea come from that in order to be RESTful,…Well, fellas, somebody ought to come out and say it: there’s no REST in Lo-REST. It’s barely good HTTP. It seems, after years of trying to bend HTTP into a donut with the WS-* spec and somesuch, Don wants to get back to basics and normalcy of what HTTP was intended to be. And I applaud that. But please, pretty please, don’t call it REST. Or Lo-REST. Or Hi-REST.

CNN.com Redesignsfour days afterJust a quick heads-up: it looks like the CNN.com came out with…For as long as you use “invoke”, and “service-oriented” in your jargon, you are not applying REST architectural style. If anything, it’s REV. Please, Don, you’re well-known and well-respected and your words are picked up and carried by crowds like you’re some sort of religious cleric. RTFM?