WS-Notification approved by OASIS

And in unrelated news, OASIS members have approved WS-Notification v1.3

OASIS, the international standards consortium, today announced that its members have approved WS-Notification version 1.3 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. WS-Notification defines a pattern-based approach for disseminating information amongst Web services.

I haven't read the relevant specifications, but should make the effort. Nah... I'll just go for a bike ride in the forest instead.

Benjamin's REST Tutorial

This is a really good engineering document that gives pragmatic design and implementation guidance for building RESTful systems: Benjamins REST Tutorial:
My favorite quote:

"You are starting to see network effects as programs with similar schemas and content types can 'just talk to each other'. They are running out of things to disagree on, and are running out of software that needs to be written to support the differences."