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  • abbreviation computing Representational State Transfer

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  • I’ve heard the term REST and glanced at a couple of articles about it, but I wasn’t really aware of its history, and that it’s a whole development methodology.

    Zach Copley » 2007 » March 2007

  • I’ve heard the term REST and glanced at a couple of articles about it, but I wasn’t really aware of its history, and that it’s a whole development methodology.

    Zach Copley » Notes from the March, 2007 East Bay Ruby Meetup 2007

  • REST is a very useful concept, even necessary for some applications, but Rails half-baked external solution, full of accessory tricks, is sub-optimal.

    Reflective Surface - Search Results 2008

  • REST is a very useful concept, even necessary for some applications, but Rails half-baked external solution, full of accessory tricks, is sub-optimal.

    Reflective Surface - Needed: a new paradigm for Web development 2008

  • REST is a very useful concept, even necessary for some applications, but Rails half-baked external solution, full of accessory tricks, is sub-optimal.

    Reflective Surface - Archives: 2008 January 2008

  • REST is just an architectural style, so the del. icio.us API can easily support XML as well.

    Scripting News for 12/20/2006 « Scripting News Annex 2006

  • Say you call a REST web service, and it returns some XML:

    HubLog Alf Eaton 2010

  • Really. dissertation Roy Thomas Fielding explained RESTful architecture (actually it seems that it even introduced the word REST), including hypermedia as the engine of application state

    Blog Posts mkarg 2010

  • Say you call a REST web service, and it returns some XML:

    HubLog Alf Eaton 2010

  • We're going to build RailsSpace blogs using a development style called REST, which is a source of considerable excitement in the Rails community.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows midpoint 2009

  • In a series of experiments on roundworms, mice and human brain tissue, they found that a protein called REST, which controls the expression of many genes related to neural firing, also controls life span.

    Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons | Quanta Magazine Veronique Greenwood 2019

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