If you’ve been developing client-side applications or functionality using SPServices and the SOAP Web Services, sooner or later you’ll want to move to REST instead. This class takes the patterns shown in the instructor's article series on ITUnity and his blog and makes it real with real-world examples. There are some things you can do now to prepare for this eventuality, whether it’s part of an upgrade to SharePoint 2013 or simply because you’ve got “legacy” code that uses SOAP instead of REST. We’ll go through the decision points, specific code examples, and better practices.