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A common mistake that many developers make is to use a link to trigger an action on the server, for example deleting an item from a shopping basket or adding something to your favourites. Both of these examples are actions that modify state on the server and should therefore be performed using 'post'.

Transfer Methods. This is at the core of REST and ROA and is the foundation of Web-Oriented Architecture. You can read Roy Fielding's chapter on REST (he conceived of the approach originally) or you can just follow the simple guidelines here. At other times, protocols like BitTorrent can be used if the requirements warrant it, but these are exceptional scenarios that I will cover at some point in the future.

Ne pas citer XMPP dans les "Transfer Methods" quelque jours après l'annonce de Google Wave, et surtout le mettre dans le schéma au niveau des Microformats fait perdre toute crédibilité à l'article.

list of references for my book on REST

In a presentation recorded at QCon San Francisco, ThoughtWorks' Ian Robinson explains how Atom and AtomPub can be used as part of a RESTful HTTP approach in enterprise projects.

using too much Javascript can reduce visibility, not only to intermediaries, but also to other denizens of the web, like crawlers.

This document describes RestMS, a RESTful Messaging Service that exposes AMQP networks as a set of resources clearly identified by URIs and each supporting the appropriate HTTP methods. RestMS is designed to interoperate with AMQP/0.9.1 and future versions of AMQP.

RDF is worth learning for a different reason — the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will make you a better format and data API designer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use RDF itself a lot. (You can get some beginning experience with RDF fairly easily by writing and modifying simple files like FOAF and DOAP for social networks and software projects, or RDFa extensions for XHTML.)

George Thomas was kind enough to post his slides describing the architecture of the recovery.org web site. The site is built using Drupal, and relies on REST, Atom, XForms, XHTML, RDFa, and SPARQL.