<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI, a nice pointer to DHH's REST-ful keynote, as well as some rest-discuss commentary.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://blog.scribestudio.com/articles/2006/07/09/david-heinemeier-hansson-railsconf-2006-keynote-address">http://blog.scribestudio.com/articles/2006/07/09/david-heinemeier-hansson-railsconf-2006-keynote-address</A><BR><DIV><BR><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Ron" <tiltbike@yahoo.com></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 13, 2006 4:14:17 AM PDT</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">rest-discuss@yahoogroups.com</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><B>[rest-discuss] I'd be interested in this group's evaluation of Rails' REST direction.</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV id="ygrp-mlmsg"><DIV id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 530px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; float:left; position:relative; z-index:1; ; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "><DIV id="ygrp-text"><P style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; ">DHH (main creator of Ruby on Rails) is taking Rails in a RESTful direction. Here is his</SPAN><A href="http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000593.html"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">blog</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "> , here is a (long) </SPAN><A href="http://blog.scribestudio.com/articles/2006/07/09/david-heinemeier-hansson-railsconf-2006-keynote-address"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">keynote</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "> he delivered at RailsConf 2006 a few days ago.</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "><BR style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; ">For myself, I was tickled -- here I was working myself up to writing a RESTy framework, but now I just need to compose my soul for the roll-out.</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "><BR style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; ">Ron</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "></P></DIV><SPAN width="1" style="color: white;; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; ">__._,_.___</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; "></SPAN><DIV id="ygrp-actbar"><SPAN class="left"><A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/6345;_ylc=X3oDMTM0djIyaW5vBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzQzMTkyNTUEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNjAwNzAxMDE0BG1zZ0lkAzYzNDUEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDdnRwYwRzdGltZQMxMTUyNzg5NDIxBHRwY0lkAzYzNDU-"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); 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