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On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:31 PM, William Denton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 1 March 2011, Bobbi Fox wrote: > >> I have been tasked with coming up with a RESTful Create, Read, Update >> [we're not Deleting] API to our home-grown controlled vocabulary database, >> "WordShack". > > I can't help you with your actual question---except to wish you good > luck---but have you read RESTful WEB SERVICES by Leonard Richardson and Sam > Ruby (O'Reilly, 2007) (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260)? > > It's excellent. You probably already know about it, but if not, it'll be a > big help. Not only does it explain about REST, by doing so it explains how > the web works. It changed how I think. That book is O, but I found it too verbose and not very practical. IMHO, a newer, much more objective and practical approach is RESTful Web Services Cookbook, published by O'Reilly in 2009. RESTful Web Services Cookbook - Solutions for Improving Scalability and Simplicity By Subbu Allamaraju http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801694 -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano