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REST in Practice

Announcing a series of talks and presentations around the forthcoming publication: REST in practice by Ian Robinson and Jim Webber ....

About REST in Practice

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  • Jim Webber
  • Ian Robinson

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REST in Practice talks

Announcing a series of talks and presentations around the new book REST in Practice, written by Jim Webber (ThoughtWorks), Ian Robinson (ThoughtWorks) and Savas Parastatidis (Microsoft).

Why don't typical enterprise projects go as smoothly as projects you develop for the Web? Does the REST architectural style really present a viable alternative for building distributed systems and enterprise-class applications?

In this insightful book, three SOA experts provide a down-to-earth explanation of REST and demonstrate how you can develop simple and elegant distributed hypermedia systems by applying the Web's guiding principles to common enterprise computing problems. You'll learn techniques for implementing specific Web technologies and patterns to solve the needs of a typical company as it grows from modest beginnings to become a global enterprise.

  • Learn basic Web techniques for application integration
  • Use HTTP and the Web’s infrastructure to build scalable, fault-tolerant enterprise applications
  • Discover the Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) pattern for manipulating resources
  • Build RESTful services that use hypermedia to model state transitions and describe business protocols
  • Learn how to make Web-based solutions secure and interoperable
  • Extend integration patterns for event-driven computing with the Atom Syndication Format and implement multi-party interactions in AtomPub
  • Understand how the Semantic Web will impact systems design


Microsoft TechTalk, Copenhagen, Denmark Workshop: RESTful Application Protocols: From Design to Implementation
Presenter: Ian Robinson
Date: 5th October
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JAOO 2010 - Aarhus, Denmark
Tutorial: REST in Practice - A Tutorial on Web-based Distributed Systems
Presenters: Ian Robinson, Jim Webber
Date & Time: 8th October, 9am-4pm GMT
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Software Architect 2010 - London, UK
Workshop: REST in Practice
Presenter: Ian Robinson, Jim Webber
Date: 22nd October
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Oredev - Malmö, Sweden
Tutorial: REST in Practice
Presenters: Ian Robinson, Jim Webber
Date: 8th November
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YOW! - Melbourne, Australia
Workshop: REST in Practice
Presenters: Ian Robinson, Jim Webber
Date: 30th November
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YOW! - Brisbane, Australia
Workshop: REST in Practice
Presenters: Ian Robinson, Jim Webber
Date: 8th December
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About the presenters


Dr. Jim Webber is a director with ThoughtWorks where he works on dependable distributed systems for clients worldwide. His current interests are in using the Web for building distributed systems, which led him to being a co-author on the book REST in Practice, having previously written Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide. Jim is an active speaker and presents regularly around the world. His blog is located at http://jim.webber.name and he tweets often @jimwebber
Ian Robinson is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he specialises in helping clients create sustainable service-oriented development capabilities that align business and IT from inception through to operation. He has written guidance for Microsoft on implementing service-oriented systems with Microsoft technologies, and has published articles on business-oriented development methodologies and distributed systems design - most recently in The ThoughtWorks Anthology (Pragmatic Programmers, 2008). He presents at conferences worldwide on RESTful enterprise integration and distributed systems design and delivery. His blog is located at http://iansrobinson.com and also find him on twitter - @iansrobinson