RESTful Web Services, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, was published this month. I interviewed the authors yesterday for an upcoming ITConversations show, but I also want to spell out here why I think it’s such an important book. In the realm of IT you could hardly pick a more controversial topic. Or, in a way, a more unlikely one, given that the REST (Representational State Transfer) architect
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