I'm at the Windows 7 launch event in Ft. Lauderdale working the community booth with Alex Funkhouser, Kathy Malone and a brief celebrity appearance by Shervin Shakibi,
Here are some pictures I took this morning!
I just got done reading "Effective REST Services via .NET" by Kenn Scribner and Scott Seely. ISBN-13: 978-0-321-6125-7
I've been hearing a lot about restful services and have absorbed the basics by osmosis but always like to read a book to cement the ideas more clearly.
This book does a good job of that but goes a few steps further.
A few things I particularly liked were:
- Review of http and how the internet works, things I don't pay much attention to any more!
- While presenting "pure" restful services also pointing out practical applications that might divert a bit.
- This book has a very good tutorial on asynchronous programming.
- The examples are good if a bit complicated but do build on each other.
- Senarios and examples cross both windows and web development.
- All in C# but was easy enough to read it looks like C# only books are the future.
It was worth the read and I have a much better understanding of restful services.