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WCF and MySpace: a RESTful MIX session!

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We just recently published a list of sessions for MIX08.

Among those, there is one that I hold especially dear:

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I had the luck to work with Paul, his team and the WCF team in the last months, specifically on how to leverage the web capabilities that WCF acquired in the version 3.5 of the framework.

It was really a great experience! First, because I had a great time with the MySpace guys. Second, because it was the best way for me (fairly open minded, but still a WS-* veteran operating at WS-Trust level) to approach the REST side of the house. The no-nonsense approach of Paul and his team, who wanted to use REST principles for getting the job done rather than for "religious" reasons, helped me to frame the principles behind REST and ROAs according to their actual usefulness. It basically helped me to cut to the chase, filtering out all the rhetoric (inevitable when things get polarized into camps). And you know what, I have to admit that I actually kind of like it :-) That's why I think that this session will be truly remarkable: you will see a paradigmatic application of REST design principles on a real world API, something so big that it needs to be well designed for working as expected. Can you find a better validation of the soundness of the REST principles? And of course, the fact that the web features of WCF supports all that is a source of huge pride for all the people that worked on it...

Anyway: I won't give away any details here. My strong advice: if you go to Mix, you can't miss Paul's session!

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  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2008
    PingBack from http://myspace.freedombloghost.info/?p=24496

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2008
    Most people consider Windows Communication Foundation ( WCF ) as a great framework for communicating

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2008
    We all knew MIX is cool. But I guess these folks are always good for One more. Vittorio just announced

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2008
    We all knew MIX is cool. But I guess these folks are always good for One more. Vittorio just announced

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2008
    Most people consider Windows Communication Foundation ( WCF ) as a great framework for communicating

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2008
    My friend Vittorio has posted that MySpace will be talking about WCF at Mix 2008 ( see it here ). This

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2008
    My friend Vittorio has posted that MySpace will be talking about WCF at Mix 2008 ( see it here ). This

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2008
    We all knew MIX is cool. But I guess these folks are always good for One more. Vittorio just announced

  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2008
    I hope I can make it to mix this year if only to see this  session. I experimented with using WCF to do a restful API a while back but ultimately abandoned it because I thought it would be better built using an MVC framework (take your pick Rails, MonoRail, System.Web.MVC) than WCF. I'll be interested to know what advantages WCF can provide over the MVC route.

  • Anonymous
    February 05, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2008
    Next week I am going to MIX ! If you are there as well and you want to take the chance to sync up on

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2008
    Next week I am going to MIX ! If you are there as well and you want to take the chance to sync up on

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Yesterday we finally had the session about the making of MySpace APIs . As you'll be able to see from

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2008
    Yesterday we finally had the session about the making of MySpace APIs . As you'll be able to see