No Longer Vaporware: The Internet of Things Is Finally Talking | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

No Longer Vaporware: The Internet of Things Is Finally Talking | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

“So Sande bought a new gizmo called the WeMo Switch, which connects to the Internet so you can turn on an outlet remotely. It’s also programmable. Using the free web service If This Then That, Sande created a script that monitors information from Yahoo Weather. If the temperature in his neighborhood hits 85 degrees, the fan turns itself on and cools the house.”

mnots blog: Web API Versioning Smackdown

mnots blog: Web API Versioning Smackdown

“The key insight here, I think, is that URIs are used for so many things persistent identifiers, cache keys, bases for relative resolution, bookmarks that overloading them with versioning and extensibility information as well makes them worse for all of their various purposes. By pushing these concerns into link relations and media types using HATEOS, you end up with a flexible, future-proof system that can evolve in a controllable way, without giving up the benefits of using HTTP (never mind REST).”