Thank you for this! Was really fun to peek behind the curtain. I appreciated your honesty in the "Shortcuts make long delays" section. Learned a bunch from reading this post.
I have found that job posting are enough. Of course, you should try to tap your network whenever you can, but in practice that will mean a much smaller pool of people who are both qualified and looking for a new position.
I think "horrible" is pretty strong and perhaps you meant a lighter shade of gray :-) It is unfortunate that this doesn't work on Pocket. Thanks for letting me know!
That's dramatic. Learning any new topic, particularly one as involved as REST, require some investment of time. Your blog post has FAR more content than my slides do. And your approach is from a "best practices" point-of-view. So the arc of our stories is necessarily different. I'm glad that blogs enable people to learn the same topic in multiple ways. It's a good for everyone. I just wish people would avoid self-promotion on top of other people's backs. =)
Yeah, as I said in my blog post this is certainly text-heavy. The more appropriate format would have been a article, but I wanted an excuse to play with SlideShare. This deck could have be thinner with more visuals if it were accompanied by audio or video as in a proper talk. But I didn't have the time to do that, so I wanted the deck to be self-contained. Just think about it as a textual blog post in slide format.
I agree with everything you've said. I intentionally did not separate "protocol" from "binding" in this deck. I wanted to take more of a pragmatic approach and less of an academic approach. In practice, REST is most often implemented on HTTP. Because devs can relate to HTTP, I coupled protocol and binding to keep things simple.