> The faq states "We will NEVER do a .NET version...". I'm curious as
> to why. What's the difference between a SOAP and a .NET version?
You know, I don't really know why we'd never do a .NET version. This may just be the bias of some of our developers. :)
> I did not know you were in portland. Cool. A friend of mine
> mentioned your website to me last summer and when I looked at it I did
> not realize you had this service. How long has idealist.org had
> published web services? It is interesting to see an explanation for
> why your site would want to publish them. Are they helping alleviate
> problems and enable opportunities in the stated two purposes? Very
> interesting to stuff.
Hi, yes, we just opened an office here in Portland last summer! I know that we've had web services around for a couple of years at least, though I don't know more than that. It's hidden on our site pretty well; you really have to want to find it. The explanation for the Web Services is a bit out of date, I think. The number of people successfully crawling our site and scraping data has gone down; we've got some ways to prevent it, and we're also offering XML feeds to sites that ask (and we like). We're delivering volunteer opportunities to Monster.com this way, for example. I think we'd love to see more unofficial Idealist tools sprout up in the future; stuff that would be useful but we don't have time to do right now. Idealist + Google Maps to find organizations and opportunities nearby could be fun, for example. I don't know if we have a user community large enough to foster this sort of thing yet, but that's the goal.
>
> As for ruby based web services Geoffrey Grosenbach up in seattle put
> together a video recently for RESTful rails,
> http://peepcode.com/articles/2006/10/08/restful-rails
>
> Here is a good page to decrypt the alphabet soup,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_services
>
> Keep us posted on your progress. It's good to hear points of view
> from outside the ruby community.
>
> Welcome to the group. :-) And hope to meet you at the next meeting.
Thanks for the resources! I'm pretty obsessed with learning Ruby, so the more I can learn, the better. When is the next meeting? It wasn't yesterday, was it??
Dave
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