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Designing Web APIs - Twitter Learnings
Although I made it to Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, I didn't make it to a session Matt McAlister blogged about by Twitter’s Alex Payne and Michael Migurski of Stamen Design who presented learnings from the perspective of an API provider. But...
Sync Google Calendar with Outlook and more with WideLens
Google has just released a very cool utility (.exe download for Windows) providing users with the ability to synchronize their Google Calendar with Outlook. Some nice features in their 0.9.3.0 release: schedule the sync frequency: every x minutes define...
Astoria at MIX08 (REST in Vegas)
As much as I'd love to make it to MIX08 this week, time will not allow me...But if I were, then I'd be going to the following three sessions related to the Project Formerly Known as Astoria : Wed, March 5th - RESTful Data Services with the ADO.NET Data...
Time to Define "Platform as a Service" (or PaaS)
Before joining Bungee Labs last year, I knew they were on to something big. I mean, really big. A big idea, an ambitious vision: to provide developers with end-to-end development, testing, deployment and hosting of sophisticated web applications as a...
Podcast with John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com
A couple of weeks back John Musser of ProgrammableWeb.com joined me and Ted for a chat to discuss the state of web APIs and the API trends as he sees them. We've now recorded the conversation and published as the first of a newly launched Bungee Line...
6 Google APIs - the Lesser Known
Adam Ostrow at Mashable has written up a non-technical introduction to Google's most popular APIs and links to some applications built using these. His post prompted me to revisit Google's own Google APIs page this morning which lists some 36 services...
Announcing Bungee Connect
At last, I can tell you more about what Bungee Labs has been up to... We've just announced details about Bungee Connect, a 100% on-demand web development and deployment environment that will be going into Beta phase in May. Over the next three days...
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