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I'm Loving InfoQ (an Online Development Community)

Recently, a friend of mine turned me on to InfoQ.com, and I've found myself back there again via a few Google searches. I'm starting to really like this site for their interviews.

I've already posted about a really great inverview with Pete Lacey on REST.

My Google searching (researching DI frameworks, Microsoft's "Unity" in particular for various reasons) came up with this great article: "Microsoft Unity Dependency Injection Application Block Released".

And, by visiting the front page, I've found this hot topic (that I'm involved with, and have contributed to): The ADO.NET Entity Framework Sparks a Debate.

All in all, this is a great site and I will certainly give it priority in my searches in the future.

The Most Amazing Interview I've Seen - Pete Lacey on REST

I just finished watching Pete Lacey talking about REST and web services for the past 30 minutes or so. As I am invested in "Astoria" (now ADO.NET Data Services), I've gotten into Atom, Atom Pub, HTTP and REST a lot more, but a lot of it still didn't 'really click' until I watched that.

If you have some idea about Astoria (from Microsoft), or REST, and you want to have someone put all those pieces in your head together to make a beautiful puzzel painting... watch that video.

Some of my favorite highlights from that video:

• Pete's explaination of how WS* can't get away from 'tight-coupling', and how REST solves that.
• "Every peice of information has it's own URI" - REST in one sentense.
• "Everybody and everything is free to do a GET" - This will make sense to you when you watch the video :)

I can't say enough how groundbreaking that was to me. And, just to prove how much of a nerd I am, my friend (who sent me the link to that video) and I have been coming up with awesome REST T-Shirt ideas. Here are a few:

• "I GET REST" - perhaps with "And I POST too" on the back?
• "POST it a REST" - instead of the phrase 'give it a rest'.
• "Ex-WS*ian gone RESTafarian" - If this doesn't make sense to you, it's because you weren't using a Jamaican accent when you read it :)

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