[LRUG] April Meeting - 16th April - Lineup?

[Eleanor]

On 4 Apr 2007, at 09:43, Martin Sadler wrote:
>>> or anyone a complete REST nay-sayer to provide a counter-point
>>> argument?
>>
>> Definitely! Does anyone hate REST? Martin Sadler didn't seem very
>> enthusiastic when we spoke at the pub last month - would you be
>> interested in being the Opposition? ;)
>
> I wouldn't say I was a nay-sayer as such, in fact I'm pro-REST but  
> I am
> aware of the short comings - which is what I chose to be vocal about
> when we chatted.
>
> I'd be happy to be on the opposing side if only to get some
> healthy debate going to see if we can come up with solutions to the
> current issues.

This should make for an interesting discussion then as I'm pro-REST  
at the infrastructure level but see the Rails RESTful methodology as  
deeply flawed. We don't expect database application designers to  
limit themselves to CRUD so why should we expect Web developers?


Ellie

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