RESTful Web Services | Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby | Essential Book For All Web 2.0 Developers

RESTful Web Services | Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby | Must Read for Any Developer

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RESTful Web Services

	RESTful Web Services Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 - 446 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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Essential Book For All Web 2.0 Developers

'RESTful Web Services' by Leonard Richardson is an absolute MUST BUY for all web 2.0 developers and/or web service developers out there in the world. With all the time that has passed since the internet was born to the masses in the early 90s, the web has become a bloated mess. While there have been improvements made, the basic nature of the net which is what makes it so unique and so powerful has become too confusing and that is hat makes this book so powerful. Stripping the confusion away, this book simplifies the web and in particular web services in general, tightening things up and showing how by making things simple makes things happy.

Building topics up bit by bit and taking things in baby steps, this book is an absolute gem that all web services developers need to go out and read TO-DAY. If you want to become a better web services and internet developer, you owe it to yourself to read this great piece of work.

***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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Must Read for Any Developer

Absolutely excellent book that covers not only the how, but the why of REST , as it is currently understood.

Until now, there has not been a definitive resource that a developer can turn to when looking for guidance on RESTful service design. REST resources have consisted of mailing lists, blogs, and (sometimes dense) articles. While there is plenty of good (and some not so good) information available, it is difficult at times to get a clear and concise view of the REST landscape, a view which is provided by Richardson and Ruby here.

This book also gives an overview of what the authors call "Big Web Services" (SOAP, WSDL, and their cousins) and lays out a persuasive argument for choosing a RESTful architecture over an RPC-based, web-breaking one.

If you are at all interested in web development or the future of software that leverages the web, do yourself a favor and pick up this book.

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Great book on rare topic

RESTful web services are used so much today but rarely talked about (compared to SOAP, Corba, etc).

This book has great examples of truly RESTful applications including examples for Amazon's S3 service.

A lot of examples include code for many languages (Python, Ruby, PHP, etc). However, the author strongly favors Ruby which is fine. Ruby/Python are so easy to learn that even if you are a PHP programmer the book would be useful.

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Back to Basics

I've been programming the web for more than 10 years and this book does an amazing job of bringing all of us back to basics. So many whiz bang technologies have been built on *top* of the web, all the while losing sight of what makes the HTTP protocol brilliantly successful.

Einstein once said: "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." This epitomizes the goals of HTTP and RESTful web service design. It's about time we had a book that cut through the muck of SOAP and SOA and showed us that all we needed was right here from the beginning.

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RESTful Web Services

Great to see a book that tries to show how to provide simple programmatic access to web applications. It's a must read if you have come to believe that programmatic access == SOAP. It's a bit unfortunate that the book jumps on the buzzword wagon (and the book could have done with a bit less Ajax & Ruby), but I guess that's what sells... Somehow I felt the examples and the organization of the book didn't make the argument quite as convincing as it could have been, but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of good material in the book, even for someone who has been following the debate for a while!

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