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For your consideration

Github renders textile, markdown, and rdoc (and maybe more, I don't know).  
It would be cool if it rendered some kind of text-based markup language 
geared for slides - S9 Perhaps? http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/

Basically, all it would have to do is use S9 to generate the HTML from something like this:

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h1. Web Services REST-Style: Universal Identifiers, Formats & Protocols

Agenda

* What's REST?
* Universal Identifiers, Formats & Protocols
* The Holy REST Trinity - Noun, Verbs, Types
* REST Design Principles 
* Architecture Astronaut REST Speak

h1. Representational State Transfer (REST) - Meaningless Acronym? Wordplay?

rest - n. - peace, ease, or refreshment resulting from the insight that the web works

No matter what vendors tell you - no need to "Light Up the Web" - relax - built on
an *open architecture using universal identifiers, formats & protocols and _evolving_
open standards* - no need to reinvent the wheel and sign-up for single-vendor offerings.

h3. Broad Definition

* Best Practices for Designing Web Services for a Unified Human and Programable Web

h3. Narrow Definition

* Alternative to BigCo Web Services (SOAP, WS-*) and RPC-Style Web Services (XML-RPC)

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