CRUD and REST

Interesting post:

http://www.rgoarchitects.com/nblog/2009/06/23/CRUDIsBadForREST.aspx

Goat Rodeo: a unified data model for Web applications

Seen here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/06/goatrodeo

This is a new data infrastructure (pseudo-transactions, persistence, etc.) for the new Scala-based Lift framework for Web applications.

Lot of fresh ideas.

How to build applications with MS SQL Data Services...

...and Windows Azure, in 17 slides:

http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/17-slides-from-teched-2009s-building.html