http://steve.vinoski.net/blog Ask forgiveness, not permission. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:49:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mark Pilgrim tells us why Protocol Buffers are so nice. Notice, though, that everything he writes focuses entirely on their form and structure as messages. If you focus only on that perspective, then sure, they're better than what many could come up with if they were rolling their own. In ... http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/07/13/protocol-buffers-leaky-rpc/ I've gotten a few emails asking me to blog my opinion of Google's Protocol Buffers. Well, I guess I pretty much share Stefan's opinion. I certainly don't see this stuff providing anything tremendously innovative, so as with Cisco Etch, it seems to me to be just another case of NIH. Ted ... http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/07/11/protocol-buffers-no-big-deal/ As an author I don't expect everyone to like what I write or agree with everything I write. I'm always up for receiving constructive criticism, as it helps me improve my writing, and when carried out with a positive mindset I think it helps everyone involved in the dialogue learn ... http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/07/07/soa-elitism/ Stefan Tilkov's latest InfoQ article, REST Anti-Patterns, is simply outstanding. It covers all the bases. While it's a great read for anyone doing RESTful service development, it's especially suitable for developers who've already studied the fundamentals of REST but are still struggling to put them into practice, and also for ... http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/07/06/stefan-tilkovs-rest-anti-patterns/ My latest Internet Computing column, "Convenience Over Correctness," (PDF) is now available. It continues the exploration of problems with RPC-oriented distributed programming approaches that I've been writing about in each of my three prior columns this year, as well as in columns from years gone by and in the erlang-questions ... http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/07/01/convenience-over-correctness/