I was wildly excited a few weeks ago to receive an email inviting me to be one of the contributors to this year's PHP Advent. Actually the biggest kick was seeing my name in a list of PHP luminaries! The article was published today, you can find it at http://phpadvent.org/2008/which-web-service-by-lorna-mitchell - its a short overview of various types of web services around with some pros and cons about when each is useful. To be included in the PHP Advent project has been huge fun, in fact I'm so delighted that I've broken one of my usual rules and blogged twice in one day :)