Zoetrope

• A nice post about how there's more to REST that meets the eye called I finally get REST. Wow, coming from an XML-RPC (or worse: SOAP) world.
• A follow-up of the above, debunking comments that REST is just RPC
• And REST, as in Take in Easy, a comment on the two posts above, which pretty much reflects my own experience with REST.

An important thing to add to the 'easy' facet of REST is that pretty much anybody working in IT has experience with it:

• The sysadmin, he uses curl or wget to get things done on his server
• The web developer, because he's evaluating request-response handling while trying to find the ultimate web application framework
• The AJAX developer, he's rendering errors when his AJAX calls return a 400 - Bad Request
• The .Net developer, he's reading up on Common reasons IIS Server returns HTTP 404 - File not found error
• The Java developer, he's typed in an URL to know how to use closures in Java
• The suit, because he's has a weblog on which he's using XML-RPC to add posts

See what I mean ;-)