I Think he Doth Protest too Much

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I Think he Doth Protest too Much

I've just been across to Dave Winer's site. Today, he's complaining about the lack of support for XML-RPC in the Newsgator roadmap. He says

...which I know from lots of experience means I have to work real hard just to try their stuff out. Too hard.

Really Dave? What tools are you using then? Here I made a post showing code that accesses the youtube API via REST and here I made a post showing code that accessed an RSS feed. As you can see the code doesn't change that much. The reason for this is that under it all the "stuff" you are dealing with is just XML. Well you know what? If I had to use an API that used XML-RPC than the code still wouldn't change that much as it's still XML under the hood.

All of which makes me wonder if using REST over XML-RPC is honestly a real hardship for Dave, or is it just that they don't support his baby (XML-RPC).

Tags: Dave Winer, XML-RPC, REST, Newsgator, Platform Wars

Print | posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:06 PM

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Do you like it when people question your honesty?

In any case, yes I meant it. If REST were as easy as XML-RPC I wouldn't have said what i said.

And before we talk about technology, learn the Golden Rule. It's good for discourse.

Have a great day.

Left by Dave Winer on Jun 29, 2006 9:06 AM

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First, you absolutely did question my honesty, and you're doing it again.

The Golden Rule is easily found on Google...

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+golden+rule%22

It says "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

In other words, when you're hurling bricks at someone, imagine what it would feel like to have someone hurl bricks at you.

Left by Dave Winer on Jun 29, 2006 2:06 PM

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Well I'd love to stick around and convince you that I was not calling you a liar, (for future reference though, you'll know when I'm saying you are a liar 'cos I'll say something like, Dave Winer is a liar - I'm that kind of guy) but I can't as I'm off to Spain tomorrow for two weeks holiday, waaaay for me! In the meantime though, maybe you could convince me that you weren't just exagerating by answering the question I've asked twice now, what tool set are you using that makes it hard to process xml via REST but easy to process xml via xml-rpc?

Oh btw, thanks for the heads up on the "Golden Rule", I'll try to bare it in mind.:)

Left by Gary Short on Jun 29, 2006 9:06 PM