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"There are currently two schools of thought in developing web services: the traditional, standards-based approach (SOAP) and conceptually simpler and the trendier new kid on the block (REST). The decision between the two will be your first choice in designing a web service, so it is important to understand the pros and cons of the two. It is also important, in the sometimes heated debate between the two philosophies, to separate reality from rhetoric."

" Ian Robinson considers that programming for the web requires a different architectural approach than for applications: clients are interested only in URIs, clients are responsible for the integrity of a sequence of requests, and one should implement application protocols as protocol resources , not domain resources. "

"The biggest thing in web apps since "rails can't scale" is this idea that "your rdbms doesn't scale." This has gone so far as to be dubbed the coming of age for "nosql" with lots of blog posts and even a meetup. Indeed, there are many promising key-value stores, distributed key-value stores, document oriented dbs, and column oriented db projects on the radar. This is *definitely* a great thing for the web application scene and this level of variety will definitely open doors for organizations large and small in the near and long term."

"In todays programming IDEs, web development and JavaScript were little more than an afterthought. With their roots dating back to the 90's, they haven't adjusted to the current needs of internet application development, they are difficult to extend and they use far too many resources. Cloud9 is a state-of-the-art IDE that runs in your browser and lives in the cloud, allowing you to run, debug and deploy applications from anywhere, anytime. A complete game-changer that will change the way we develop applications forever."

"2 Want to build a successful web app? Then it's time to Get Real. Getting Real is a smaller, faster, better way to build software. Getting Real is about skipping all the stuff that represents real (charts, graphs, boxes, arrows, schematics, wireframes, etc.) and actually building the real thing."

"Why are so many sites vulnerable to these well-known holes? Probably because it's insanely hard for programmers to solve the fundamental "strings problem" at the heart of these vulnerabilities. The problem itself is easy to understand, but we humans aren't equipped to carry out the solution. Simply put, we just plain suck at keeping a bazillion different strings straight in our heads, let alone consistently and reliably rendering their interactions safe whenever they cross paths in a modern web application. It's easy to say, "just escape the darn things," but it's hard to get it right, every single time."

"There are quite of lot of things that I want to put into the framework, but it is functional in its current state. One of the goals for Nancy is to make it run on other environment and platforms, other than ASP.NET / IIS and there are spikes taking place to run it on Mono with FastCGI, making it possible to run on a bunch of other platforms. However, although this is the goal, the current source code does not provide any helpers to make that possible. Right now it only ships with an IHttpHandler that acts as an adaptor between ASP.NET / IIS and the Nancy engine."

"SourceMaking - is the best information source on the Web on such software development topics as design patterns, refactoring and UML. A lot of information freely available through the site's pages, so feel free to use bookmarklet to leave interesting chapters for further reading. You may start browsing the site by following one of these topics:"

" Node.js has unleashed a new wave of interest in server side Javascript. In this session, you'll learn how to get productive with node.js by leveraging Connect and Express node middleware. Connect makes it simple to stack layers and build complex web services with minimal effort and maximum reuse. We'll also walk quickly through Express - an easy-to-use framework built on top of Connect that makes development even faster."

"Pusher is a hosted API for quickly, easily and securely adding scalable realtime functionality via WebSockets to web and mobile apps."

"Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features."

"if(dev) is the vNext.org home page and main blog about whats hot now in the dev world from HTML5 and Android to win8 and Phone7. Want to know what everyone else is into? Trying to stay a breast of the current technologies, then if(dev) is the one blog source for you."

"Socket.IO aims to make realtime apps possible in every browser and mobile device, blurring the differences between the different transport mechanisms. It's care-free realtime 100% in JavaScript."

"SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability and real-time analytics along with flexible APIs that make custom integration a breeze."