I’m a huge supporter of REST: I think it’s a great to take full advantage of a protocol, especially HTTP, to communicate. However, even though I personally have embraced REST, I can’t seem to find anyone to back me up on it.

As of now, this web site runs on the REST principles (all thanks to Ruby on Rails); this includes the blog, the portfolio section, and the photo section. This is great, every URL is technically a path to a resource, and every resource has actions that can be taken against it. The problem I’m having, however, is that I want a desktop application (Mac Application, preferably), to take advantage of that.

I haven’t found a single application that supports REST for blogging. I took the opportunity to contact MarsEdit developer Red Sweater Software to see if he would be supporter a REST protocol anytime soon; his response : eventually. He says MarsEdit will support AtomPub, which is based off the Atom feed format, allowing for REST based publishing. I just can’t find any information on AtomPub (besides the main web site, but very little information is actually displayed about the protocol).

If anyone knows of a REST aware client, please let me know!

UPDATE

I gave up. I couldn’t find any out there that support REST, so, I’m going to make my own.