the ryan king

Greg Beaver has decided to try moving from XML-RPC to REST for the pear installer:

I suspect the only reason nobody thought to do this for the first incarnation of the PEAR installer is that REST just isn’t as sexy in appearance. I mean, how cool is it that you can call a function on a remote server as if it were in the same script? REST requires clunkier thinking in terms of resources. It is more like accessing information in an xml file via XPath versus grabbing it through an abstraction that does some of the magic processing for you.

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I went to see my Kansas City Wizards play against the San Jose Earthquakes. The game was pretty exciting and we had a pretty good view of it from the fourth row.

We (KC) started out strong, scoring in the 5th minute and dominating possession for the first 20 or so minutes. However, the Wizards couldn’t continue to dominiate as the Earthquakes attack successfully to go up 2-1. The Wizards scored again before half to make the halftime score 2-2.

The Earthquakes scored again in the second half, putting the result at 3-2. The Wizards only hope in the second half was a penalty kick taken by Josh Wolff which was blocked by Pat Onstead.

I think the Wizards weakness is lack of a good attacking central midfielder. Our two central midfielders, Diego Gutierrez and Kerry Zavagnin are both more defensive and possession minded, leaving the attack to our strickers and wingers. Tonight we had some great play up top from Wolff, Sealey and Arnaud and on the wings from Klein, Victorine, Jewsbury and Zotinca, but they are lacking support from an attacking midfielder who could tie them all together. Many times, the ball was played from our backs up to Wolff, who was able to hold the ball with his back to goal but was not given an options to play the ball off to attacking midfielders.

I guess we’re missing Preki.