Rob Bagby is in the midst of a blog series on REST in WCF and been building a series of screencasts on the same subject (in conjunction with Ron Jacobs).

Since it's such an interesting topic, especially to AJAX developers I thought I'd share them here.

Blog Series:

• REST in WCF - Part I (REST Overview)
• REST in WCF - Part II (AJAX Friendly Services, Creating The Service)
• REST in WCF - Part III (AJAX Friendly Services, Consuming The Service)
• REST in WCF - Part IV (HI-REST - Exposing a service via GET - Configuring the service)
• REST in WCF - Part V (HI-REST - Exposing a service via GET - The ServiceContract and Implementation)
• REST in WCF - Part VI (HI-REST - Consuming our GET service via AJAX)
• REST in WCF - Part VII (HI-REST - Implementing Insert and Update
• REST in WCF - Part VIII (HI-REST - Implementing Delete)
• REST in WCF - Part IX - Controlling the URI
• REST in WCF - Part X - Supporting Caching and Conditional GET

Screencast Series:

• endpoint.tv - Controlling the URI in RESTful WCF with Rob Bagby
• deCast - Creating a HI-REST GET Service with WCF 3.5
• deCast - Consuming a HI-REST GET Service From Silverlight 2 (Beta 2)
• endpoint.tv - Caching and Conditional Get with Rob Bagby
• deCast - Creating an AJAX-Friendly WCF Service
• deCast - Creating a HI-REST PUT Service That Exposes Insert and Update
• endpoint.tv - Securing RESTful services with ASP.NET Membership

From their description .....

nAML (.NET Application Language, pronounced as “namel”) is a visual modeling semantics to model .net applications with wide range of specific details. It contains extremely powerful visual notations and semantics to illustrate complex application components, processes and operations easily.

The primary objectives of nAML can be considered as follows:

• Provides a single space to visually describe one or more application systems with structural and behavioral components.
• Provides a single space to visually describe one or more application systems with logical and physical components.
• Provides a single space to visually describe one or more application systems from top to low level.
• Provides a single space to visually describe a part or whole of one or more application systems.
• Extremely simple and easy understand and learn from readers and designers perspective.
• Concentrates on .NET applications, with its related logical and physical entities (user interface, application logic, business logic, database etc).

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/naml

We always give away lame stuff like squishy balls.

Check out the cool gadget Sybase was giving away at #ZendCon08

A tiny remote controlled race car.

We need to get more creative with our free stuff :)

Create an Open Source ASP.NET AJAX server control on CodePlex and win a book !

[ Click HERE for all the details. ]

The second Central Coast Code Camp will be held September 27th and 28th, 2008, at the Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo, CA. (Home of UFC Champion Chuck "The Ice Man" Liddell)

I can't make it so send me a full report !

http://www.centralcoastcodecamp.com

For Sean who Tweeted early this morning that he's having and angry day !

The folks at O'Reilly recently published this gem !

From the book description:

This book is a comprehensive guide to the tips, techniques, secrets, standards, and methods of website optimization. From increasing site traffic to maximizing leads, from revving up responsiveness to increasing navigability, from prospect retention to closing more sales, the world of 21st century website optimization is explored, exemplified and explained.

Though I've just started readying it I'm already convinced it's a must have !

[ Click Here to get your copy ! ]

I'm working on my demos for ZendCon and updating a PHP Chat application built on the Microsoft Ajax Client Libraries and the PHPMSAJAX codeplex project.

Since I want to use a JSON serializer and PHP 5.2 has one built in, I wanted to upgrade the default PHP version on CentOS (5.1) to 5.2.

To do this, I needed to install from an alternate repository maintained by "Remi" .

He has a repository for many distros, but since I'm updating CentOS, I used the RedHat ES5 repository.

Here are the commands you need to run.

wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...5-2.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/el5.i3...emi.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-5*.rpm epel-release-5*.rpm

Ater these steps the .rpm(s) are you your system but that not installed and active.

To "install" them do this.....

yum --enablerepo=remi update php

PHP 5.2.6 should now be installed.

Check by running this command in a console.

# php -v

The output should indicate the latest version of PHP.

To see the results from phpinfo(); you'll probably have to restart Apache. (Or at least I did.)

I guess EVERYONE isn't a Chrome Fan :)

Interesting commentary about the REAL business goals of .Chrome

Read - CNN Review: Google's Chrome needs more polish

So there is this very smart guy on the ASP.NET team named Scott Hunter who is one of the guys working on Dynamic Data !

He has just added a sample of using Dynamic Data with Stored Procedures to the Dynamic Data Samples on CodePlex.

Click [ HERE ] for the Sample Project home page.

Click [ HERE ] for a forums discussion on Dynamic Data with Stored Procedures.

The Deep Fried Bytes guys caught  up with me at DevLink and we had a talk about developer security needs, mistakes, activities, etc !

Listen Here http://deepfriedbytes.com/

What's wrong with this picture ?

9:00AM PST - Virtually live from Ireland:)

Click HERE http://developers.ie/webcasts.aspx for more info !

Christian Wenz has pushed a new release of he PHP libraries for the Microsoft AJAX libraries with support version 3.5.

Get it here on Codeplex http://www.codeplex.com/phpmsajax

Mehfuz Hossain, a Microsoft MVP & Developer at Telerik has created a cool flickr with asp.net MVC that you might like to check out.

The url is : www.flickrmvc.net  and the source code can be found at www.codeplex.com/flickrXplorer.

It is built on the Athena (A LINQ to flickr API) -  one of the early LINQ providers (also written by Mehfuz) which you can get at www.codeplex.com/linqflickr.

Also, LINQ to flickr is built on LinqExtender,  a toolkit that helps you make your own home grown LINQ providers without knowing much of anything about LINQ. You can find that project here - www.codeplex.com/linqextender

Have Fun!!!