Great article. I wish you would have written this a year ago when I needed this info. I had to learn all of this stuff the hard way. I'm definitely going to

Great article. I wish you would have written this a year ago when I needed this info. I had to learn all of this stuff the hard way. I'm definitely going to use this as a first resource to give to people that I know who are building restful APIs. I'm slightly a bigger proponent of HATEOAS, but if you don't need it yet, I think you can always add it in later. I've been the giver and receiver of bad things when it's not followed, but that is generally around massive projects.