In the interest of separation of concerns (and hoping people will be less scared away from it than Chowdah), I've branched the HTTP library from Chowdah into its own project, HTTP-PHP. This was always the most well-developed part of Chowdah, and its scope can go well beyond simply running a REST server (for instance, it could be a client, too!).

Inspired by a proposal on www-style and my own previous experiments, I've created a plugin for jQuery called Flexify which allows you to specify CSS dimensions in terms of available free space, making flexible, fluid website layouts ridiculously simple.

I can only hope they decide to add it to the CSS3 spec; but for now, my quirky implementation will have to suffice.

Chowdah 0.8.5 has been released. It includes two sample applications I whipped up for the occasion, Server (which replicates the functionality of your web server, but... worse), and Quiki: the Littlest Wiki. Neither of these are particularly RESTful, but I've started using build scripts, so it makes me feel important anyway.

It's amazing what you can (and can't) accomplish when you don't actually have a job to speak of.