He described a broad picture of Web services and APIs. Very interesting and entertaining for narrow-minded programmer like me. I would like to chat with Dave some time again. Unfortunately, next session was coming, so I had to leave. (to my disappointment – see the next post).

I said to staff that they should introduce ‘discussion panel’ presentation type and move all these panels to the end of the day, to leave some time for the discussion itself. :)

(if you already know what the web service is, you can skip this post. I am giving this info for the sake of completeness)

API Types (broadly): Data, Service, Communications, Storage
API Formats (broadly): Name/Value pairs, POX (plain ol’ XML), REST, RSS\ATOM, SOAP\XML Schema, AJAX\JSON, Flex, Silverlight – and others.
API Catalogs (some): StrikeIron, XMethods, Programmable Web, API Finder, Remote Method, IBM SOA, eSigma
(I also add ESRI’s Geography Network)

Sample mashup link: http://housingmaps.com

Tool: Notepad2

Links: Dave is all over the Web :)

Любит поговорить.

Worth working with? Sure!