Data and Modeling Group Architect, Pablo Castro, discusses RESTful ADO.NET Data Services with Ted Neward

Come hear an overview of the REST principles and why REST is becoming popular beyond traditional Web applications. Learn how to write applications that produce and consume RESTful services using the .NET Framework 4 and the improvements we have planned for future versions of the .NET Framework.

In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2009, Don Box discusses the history of SOAP, XML, XML Schema, RELAX NG, SOAP and WSDL, REPL, opinions on REST, REST at Microsoft, coexistence of REST and WS-*, the M programming language, M and DSLs, M versus XML/XML Schema, Data as XML, and future plans for M and data modeling at Microsoft.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/box-soap-xml-rest-m

Learn how Web developers can use “M”, a new language for describing data, metadata and domain specific languages, to enhance RESTful services like HTTP, JSON, RSS/Atom, and more. Also see how “M” can be used on premise or in the cloud to achieve greater development productivity and to create more compelling customer experiences.

RESTful architectures are the subject of this presentation, specifically the way they are particularly attractive in solving many financial services integration problems. Kirk will present the advantages of a RESTful architecture to develop integrated systems in the financial services arena, in particular leveraging infrastructure, skills, and systems already in place at these firms.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/restful-financial-systems-integration

The Play framework is a clean alternative to bloated Enterprise Java stacks. It focuses on developers productivity and targets RESTful architectures. Play is a perfect companion for agile software development.

Arjen addresses Spring 3.0 support for REST in Spring MVC including, URI templates, content-negotiation, and other RESTFul concepts. Starting with an overview of REST, he then addresses the new RESTful features in Spring, including: RESTful URI’s, URI templates, Content negotiation, HTTP method conversion, and ETag support.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/rest-web-application-architectures

This presentation takes a look at CouchDB from 10,000 ft. CouchDB is a document oriented database with a highly acclaimed REST API and replication support, that solves problems of high-traffic, distributed peer-to-peer, and offline applications. all at the same time. You will learn to decide when CouchDB is a good fit for your project and when you are better off with a traditional database.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/couchDB-from-10K-feet

Restlet is a lightweight REST framework. These screencasts will take you through the installation of Restlet in an Eclipse IDE and the creation of a simple Restlet application.
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.1/screencast/

In this tutorial we install the MySQL Data base for Ruby on Rails and install the plugin Restful Authentication. This tutorial was created by Mike Lively of Northern Kentucky University.