So looking at Astoria
very briefly today ... a good starting point is probably Alex James blog and all the linked
posts - and so far I'm left with a "so what" attitude to the
technology releases so far (but it is very early days).



I feel like what's being presented is something I could cobble
together using Dream
and ActiveRecord/NHibernate
or Base4 with a couple of weeks
work at best... I'm probably being a little optimistic though ;o)
Devil is always in the detail... but what's in the wild so far
hasn't made me sit up and take notice, I hope the next couple of
drops will though.



However in the mean time, what does interest me:

• Standardization of a query scheme... so far I've only seen
  examples of search/get queries.. I'm particularly interested in
  any update related queries... this is where the opportunities for
  doing evil live, and where community input will be vital I think.
  
• How does WebDAV fit into the Astoria picture at the
  moment?
  
  
• Astoria SaaS ... I find the idea of being able to design and
  provision REST'ful stores on the web (with my own schema) quite
  intriguing.
  
• • That said - I'm not sure what I'd do with it, but I still
    want it ;o)
    
  
  
  • And thinking out loud, but besides the obvious uses for
    web/ajax/flash/silverlight fraternity *yawn* - could this
    kind of thing actually give new life to some desktop based
    applications - It could certainly smarten them up a bit, so
    that using the same application on multiple machines (i.e.
    work/home) could optionally give you the same
    experience.