Assaf writes about, among other things, REST as a simplifier of development against an existing system:
REST plays the same role as open source and open APIs: It eliminates tooling and vendoring as artificial barriers to adoption.
Interestingly, a corollary to this was brought up at Barcamp Brighton this weekend. During Gareth Rushgrove’s talk about REST and [...]
The slides for my Barcamp talk are available, for those who missed it (most of you, you swine). Of interest if you want to see a Drupal site that doesn’t look like a Drupal site, and how you might go about doing that.
Natalie and Simon are leaving us to move to Brighton, which is a real shame but also an excuse to go to Barcamp Brighton. Tickets went on sale at 11am today, and I’ve managed to nab one before they sold out.
This will be my first Barcamp so I’ve really no idea what to expect. [...]