Why REST is More Like Religion than Most Technologies

As someone whose entire career has been involved with technology platforms, and specifically programming platforms in some form or another, it’s clear to me something which is obvious to most patient observers: that adherents of a particular technology platform tend to become very “religious” about it. Advocates of specific a technology platform are known to …

WordPress as Wiki?

Interesting.  I guess my recognition of the similarity of WordPress’ new Revisions control to Mediawiki/Wikipedia was not unique.  Andrew Hyde proposed Wikify, as a plugin for WordPress to allow readers to revise posts for facts, spelling errors, et. al. Great idea.  Of course it becaming popular would be a mixed blessing as we’d have yet another thing for …

Microsoft Visual Mashup Creator Express, May 2007 Community Tech Preview Internet Edition

You gotta love that some at Microsoft actually have a sense of humor! From the PopFly FAQ (emphasis mine): Why did you call it Popfly? Well, left to our own devices we would have called it "Microsoft Visual Mashup Creator Express, May 2007 Community Tech Preview Internet Edition," but instead we asked some folks for …