Thursday, August 13, 2009

distributed applications

internet is all about pushing and pulling information from different places at different times. the basic idea behind this are the URL and the HTTP protocol. Also, the network gets encapsulated by the cloud concept.
An interesting variation on this seems the CouchDB project.
Here is an interesting video:
CouchDB overview

J. Chris Anderson often uses the REST concept and that he has been learning internet programming by "view source" HTML and later rails.

Here is a short tutorial on REST maybe interesting to look into one day:

PHP rest tutorial from yahoo

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