links for 2008-04-27

A must-read for anyone using git. Git’s appeal really does seem to extend beyond just source-code management; I’d recommend it for writers who want to manage a history of textfiles, for example. Much nicer than subversion, IMO.

As far as I can tell, REST means designing your web applications and services so that you represent concepts as stateful objects that can be manpulated by a limited set of verbs available through HTTP. Or something.