Steve Vinoski published a very interesting article: Serendipitous reuse. He also provided additional comments in his blog. The author explores benefits of RESTful uniform interfaces based on HTTP “verbs” GET, PUT, POST and DELETE for building expansible distributed systems. He also compares RESTful approach with traditional SOA implementations based on strongly typed operation-centric interfaces.

Serendipitous reuse is one of the main goals of Subject-centric computing. In addition to uniform interfaces, Subject-centric computing promotes usage of uniform representations with basic ontological commitments (as one of the possible representations). ...

Designing and using Domain Specific Languages (DSL) is a popular programming style in Ruby community. I am experimenting with Ruby-based DSL for authoring topic maps. Surprisingly, the result is very close to my view on the “ideal” CTM (Compact Topic Maps syntax). ...