Daniel Crenna makes an otherwise long journey easy by beginning ‘Professional Twitter Development with Examples in .NET 3.5’ (www.wileyindia.com) with REST. “Before you can learn to run with the Twitter API, you first must walk with the web. The Representational State Transfer (REST) pattern, and the RESTful services that follow its principles, provide an intuitive layer over traditional HTTP programming that is a widely adopted standard among modern web sites, and Twitter is no exception,” he guides.
What is REST? A philosophy of web architecture, derived from a service-oriented approach and characterised by a transparent interface over HTTP, the author informs. “REST is designed to demonstrate a low barrier to entry for web developers, and encourages the design of scalable, discoverable web programming. REST itself is not a protocol or a messaging system; everything needed to consume REST services is found in existing technologies.”
In the intro to the book Crenna traces how Twitter, launched in March 2006, has grown steadily into one of the simplest, most popular, and most powerful social networking platforms. “Perhaps more compelling than Twitter itself is the growing community of developers building applications for the service and taking it far beyond its roots as a simple messaging service.”
For the hands-on professional.
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Tailpiece
“Things are getting hot in cyberabad, too.”
“Asking for new State codes?”
“Plus, a totally separate network cabling!”
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