a few links

[cellio]

Thanksgiving food: it's not too late! Thanks to shalmestere for pointing out this Thanksgiving dinner flowchart.

A great rant on web-service protocols (that is, SOAP versus REST) from a former coworker: the S stands for simple.

Law and the Multiverse on Once Upon a Time: is Rumpelstiltskin's contract valid?

Comments

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

Oy. I am re-glad that I have never needed to do anything with SOAP yet.

[cellio]

I've called SOAP services but not written code for one yet. I think I'm glad. :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

*sighs deeply* Yes, you are.

REST isn't great because much of it uses JSON, but XML is hideously processor-intensive to parse and the SOAP protocols are.. uhm.. I'm going to go hide in a corner now.