RESTful vs. REST-RPC hybrid vs. RPC webservices

I am reading through RESTful Web Services by Leonard Richardson & Sam Ruby and found a good description of a RESTful resource-oriented service vs. a REST-RPC hybrid service vs. an RPC service:

A RESTful, resource-oriented services exposes a URI for every piece of data the client might want to operate on. A REST-RPC hybrid exposes a URI for every operation the client might perform: One URI to fetch a piece of data, a different URI to delete that same data. An RPC-style service exposes one URI for every process capable of handling Remote Procedure Calls (RPC).

Just something I wanted to share. :)

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever

On my way to work today I finished the last book in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever trilogy by Stephen R. Donaldson which has been very exciting and entertaining. The books have given me many hours of reading pleasure and I can’t wait to start on the first book in the second chronicles.

The other stuff I have read from Donaldson includes the Gap sequence, and Mordant’s Need, and they are all highly recommended if you are info Fantasy / Sci-fi stuff.

Hamilton

Finished the third book, “I nasjonens interesse” (In interest of the nation), in the series about Carl Hamilton by Jan Guillou on the way home from work today. Looking forward to the fourth tomorrow. :)

I also noticed that I am yet to publish the last blog post from php|tek 2007. I will probably finish it up tomorrow.

Stephen R. Donaldson

Last week I finished reading the second and last book of Mordant’s Need by Stephen R. Donaldson. I you are into sci-fi / mystery / fantasy and have not read anything of Donaldson I seriously suggest you get some of his books. A couple of years ago I finished The Gap series as well which is a 5 book sci-fi / space-pirate type series. Awesome stuff! :)

I have started on The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, and finished the first book some months back. I have ordered a couple more in that series, and I hope to have them sometime this week.

New books

Just got back from the post office. I got a note in the mail today telling me that a package had arrived at the local post office. I thought it was the iPod I ordered earlier this week so I drove straight there and picked it up. The package was kinda large and heavy but I was obsessed with the iPod so I did not think about it. When I got home and opened it , the package contained a box from Amazon… Then I remembered that I ordered some books a while ago! :) The books I got was:

• Lord Foul’s Bane
• The Mirror of Her Dreams
• A Man Rides Through

all by Stephen R. Donaldson. I also got Extending and Embedding PHP by Sara Golemon. Hopefully I will get the Ipod early next week. :)