Re:The one true REST explanation
by gruseom on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:27PM
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It's a fact about the industry that most such consultants-authors-speakers don't actually build systems themselves and haven't for a long time. If you want to get prominent at it, telling other people how to build things is itself a full-time job. The contradiction here is unfortunately very real.
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I agree in principle, but not when applied to Martin Fowler. I doubt the guy who literally wrote the book on refactoring did so without any real-world experience.
Sure, there was a time he spent a lot of time building OO systems. I don't know how much time he's actually spent building ~distributed~ systems.
Re:The one true REST explanation
by joe_the_user on Saturday November 13, 2010 @03:24AM
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I like the book Refactoring too.
But I don't think the book, in itself, can cited as evidence that he's built large, real-world systems.
There's a big step between "no experience" and "major experience with large scale, distributed systems".
When I had six months of programming experience, I could do a fine rendition of the standard OO doctrines. With far more experience now, I can mostly describe how they fail to operate in the real world.