Over at Signal vs Noise, DHH just wrote about how his MacBook AIR could be his only machine, and talks about powerful enough to all his development work.  In fact, he’s using it so much, his MacBook Pro is gathering dust.
I’ve been in the camp of small, lightweight dev machines for a couple years now.  [...]

As an alternative to SOAP, XML-RPC, etc., REST stands for Representations State Transfer, and it provides simple, platform-neutral data exchange using the HTTP transport.  You’ve been hearing about it a lot from Ruby on Rails guys (as of Rails 1.2 built-in APIs exist for exposing all your models to the web with a line or two of [...]