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REST at OOPSLA

Mark Baker — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:49:44 +0000

I’m pleased to announce that Stuart Charlton and I have had our tutorial proposal for OOPSLA ‘07 accepted. Our topic, as you can probably guess, is REST and the Web, and the (working) title is The Web: Distributed Objects Realized! We’ll be talking about REST and the Web of course, including why REST was initially called the “HTTP Object Model”.

See you in Montreal!

We’re back!

Mark Baker — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:47:34 +0000

Coactus is back! We’re currently running at about 50-60% capacity, so the kind of work we can take on is somewhat limited, but not too much so. Anything that doesn’t involve travel assignments longer than a week would be fine.

Hiatus

Mark Baker — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:06:12 +0000

Unfortunately, for personal reasons I have to put Coactus on hiatus, for at least a couple of years. I’m now actively seeking employment. I’ll keep this site around indefinitely, but I haven’t decided if I’ll keep posting to this blog. We’ll see. You can always follow my personal blog.

The Service Oriented Web

Mark Baker — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:23:00 +0000

… is the title of a presentation I crafted – ably presented by Makoto Murata in Japan last week – about how the Web is already a platform for network based services, without the “help” of Web services related specifications.

Bay Area visit

Mark Baker — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:34:24 +0000

I’ll be down in the Bay Area for a few days, arriving next Wednesday, September 14th. On the 14th, I’ll be attending (though arriving late) the SDForum “Web Based Architectures: Where do we go from here?” in Palo Alto. The next day, I might (still working it out) be giving a talk at CommerceNet on (working title), “RESTful advice for AJAX developers”. The following week, I’m at Oracle OpenWorld at Moscone, for a client. I return the morning of the 23rd. Please feel free to drop me a line if you’d like to get together to talk integration.

Indigo supports REST

Mark Baker — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:27:17 +0000

Dare Obasanjo reports that Indigo will include support for RESTful service development! A very welcome move indeed. It will be interesting to see how the APIs deal with specs such as SOAP and WS-Addressing which can be used RESTfully and non-RESTfully. It seems to me that the worst thing that could happen for developers, would be to have two completely independent API packages with little or no significant overlap; a message is a message, after all.

Planet Web 2.0

Mark Baker — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:57:30 +0000

Coactus is honoured that its weblog has been chosen to be integrated into the Planet Web 2.0 feed. Thanks to Ian Davis for his good taste in content. 8-)

Welcome to the Coactus weblog

Mark Baker — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:32:46 +0000

The Coactus weblog is now up on running on the able Wordpress platform. I’m quite impressed with Wordpress so far in terms of features, ease of use, and extensibility. If only it used POST for actions with side-effects, and left GET for retrievals, then I’d be able to give it my RESTful stamp of approval! I’m still working on trying to bridge the world of custom style sheets and Wordpress themes to give the blog the look-and-feel of the rest of the site. Until then, it’s probably best to stick to the RSS/Atom feed. 8-)