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Jon Udell has [blogged](http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/05/24/restful-web-services/) about the new [RESTful web services](http://www.crummy.com/writing/RESTful-Web-Services/) book by Richardson and Ruby (see [New book ordered](http://crispyj2.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-book-ordered.html)). In his post refers to an [interview](http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/08/25.html) he did last year with Roy Fielding and another with the authors that was then in post production but was [published](http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1830.html) today. I’ve got a coffee in my hand and I’m off to listen to them both. [p.s. I picked up the [link](http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/05/23/Link-Bait) to Jon’s piece from Sam Ruby’s [blog](http://intertwingly....

Today, my colleague Dr John Mason and I interviewed one of my MEng students who has submitted a research dissertation on Free and Open Source Software in Engineering Education. Just prior to the interview, John showed me this site which he had picked up by Googling “open source education brazil“. It wasn’t picked up by my student in his literature review (which to be fair was directed to the more “professional” search engines on-line like IET Inspec and IEEE XPlore) but it looks like a great resource and I shall need to add it to my list of sites worthy of a longer look....

After an announcement on the Learning Lab blog, I had signed up for the on-line REAP (Re-Engineering Assessment Practices) conference that took place between 29th and 31st May last week. And then with examination assessment and other distractions, promptly forgot all about it. Because I also neglecting my email, I also missed all the reminders that appeared in my in-box until Thursday lunchtime. So I was only able to catch part of the final on-line discussion session!...

Eric Amstrong has published a nice summary of some of the main topics that caught his attention at this year’s JavaOne. The topics are listed as: Scripting Languages on the JVM Improved JRE Insallations Java Quick Start Service Java Modules Java 7 Language Java 7 Tools User Interface Testing with FEST Sun ID System DITA Pod Writing DSLs in Ruby and I have highlighted the ones of particular interest to me....

Dion Almaer has provided a nice new portal to the Google Tech Talk Showcase of tech videos that are hosted on Google Video. I’ve been picking these up from a search feed that looks for the engEdu tag on Google Videos and watching the videos for a couple of months now. Dion’s new showcase site now puts everything in one place. Of course, there’s also an RSS feed that in Google Reader shows you the videos right there in your feed....