From: "Ben Scott" Subject: [GNHLUG] SLUG Durham / Mon 13 Oct / REST - REpresentational State Transfer in HTTP Date: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:36:53 PM Who : Brian Turnbull What : REST - REpresentational State Transfer in HTTP Date : Mon 13 Oct 2008 (this coming Monday) Time : 7 PM to 9 PM Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH Brian Turnbull will present the second part of his series on HTTP: "RESTful Web Services". REpresentational State Transfer is the theoretical underpinning of HTTP/1.1. Brian will explain what REST is, present examples of existing web services using REST, and also cover the practical application of REST and the Atom Publishing Protocol in creating a web service. The author of this announcement found Brian's first presentation on HTTP to be quite interesting; there's a lot more hidden behind that "http://" than most people realize. I learned more than I expected in September, and I expect to learn more in October. According to Wikipedia, REST abstracts everything into resources which are uniquely identifiable and accessible via a standard protocol which is stateless, cacheable, and layered, leading to a robust, scalable, distributed system. Come to Brian's talk and learn what that means. == About Brian == Brian Turnbull is a software engineer specializing in Python and Ruby web application/service design, development, and deployment. His current and recent projects include Razume (http://www.razume.com/) and Changents (http://www.changents.com/). He also has a personal website (http://brianturnbull.com/). === About SLUG === SLUG is the Seacoast Linux User Group, and is a chapter of GNHLUG, the Greater NH Linux User Group. Rob Anderson is the SLUG coordinator, and reliably comes up with interesting topics each month. SLUG meets the second Monday of every month, same time, same place. You can find out more about SLUG and GNHLUG at their websites. http://slug.gnhlug.org http://www.gnhlug.org Meetings take place starting at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to all. The meeting proper ends around 9ish, but it's not uncommon to find hangers-on there until 10 or later. They take place in Room 301 (the third floor conference room), of Morse Hall, at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce