Dave Verwer

So I finally got around to finishing off the video from the NWRUG in February, this video is of Rob Lee (http://kodefoo.com, http://monkeyhelper.com) talking about REST in Rails.

I have to say I am still not convinced about REST as a general design principle (although I must say this is not because of Rob’s presentation!) and I just cant see many benefits over how I already write Rails applications, maybe this makes me a Rails luddite and if so, i don’t really care ;)

Now, if I was implementing a specific API I would be all over doing it with REST and I am more than happy to consume other peoples API’s with REST and ActiveResource.

We have Graham Pengelly (http://goingspare.wordpress.com/, http://www.mainlineconsultants.com/) to thank for the fabulous intro/ident that starts the video… it really makes us look way more professional than we are ;)

Finally, just a quick plug for next weeks NWRUG meeting (on the 22nd March), anyone unlucky enough to be going will have to watch me talk about Unobtrusive JavaScript but all is not lost because after that, Paul Robinson will be doing a “Mystery Ruby” session.

Anyway, on with the video from February! Enjoy.

So I am just about to leave for the BBC Backstage, New Media is Dead talk at the MDDA in Manchester.

I will be filming it and so that and the NWRUG video of Rob Lee should be up very soon… I have Rob’s talk all imported into iMovie, I just need to put an intro on it.

Not a great first blog post on daveverwer.com, hopefully some will be slightly less inane than this one though :D