Review of 2 books covering REST

When I started exploring Cloud computing, REST was a topic that popped up over and over. So I purchased two books to read on a four day weekend out of town earlier this year.

“RESTful .Net” by Jon Flanders – This book was very deep, in many ways too deep. The book didn't live up to my expectations and I don’t recommend the book unless you are striving to do some advanced REST programming, or dealing with an old version of the .Net framework.

“Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2” by John Papa (Foreword by Tim Heuer) – This book is a very good book to use as a first introduction to REST. This is a must read for any Silverlight developer, but a good learning tool for anyone exploring REST for the first time, even if you have never explored Silverlight. An excellent book. Two thumbs up.

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