Aug 07 2011 This is a follow-up post to my post here. You probably want to read that first. UPDATE: Please note that ‘REST is over’. ’Hypermedia API’ is the proper term now. A few words on standards versus pragmatism When I wrote my first post on this topic, I tried to take a stance that would be somewhat soft, yet forceful. Engineering is the art of making the proper trade-offs, and there are tim