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How ADO.NET Data Services came to be (formerly known as Project Astoria)
Pablo Castro has recounted some of his timelined memories about how "Project Astoria" evolved from a lunch time conversation to bits in .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 now known as ADO.NET Data Services Framework ). Nice write up. Three memories...
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...
See Results of Bungee Connect's Intern DevFest 2008
In late 2007, fifty Computer Science university students applied for 2008 internships at Bungee Labs . We flew nine of the most promising applicants from around the US to join Bungee Labs for our first “Intern DevFest”. Over a 24 hour period the students...
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...
Video demo: REST Describe & Compile for WADL
In March 2007, I naively asked if REST needs a WSDL and if yes, was WADL the one (Web Application Description Language). The conversation goes on , but I thought the video below and pointers might be of interest to those who have an opinion one way or...
Podcast interviews - smart people in the world of the web
One of the fun parts of my job at Bungee Labs is to partner up with Ted and interview some smart people in the world of the web. We publish these as a podcast series ( the Bungee Line - podcast feed here ) over on the BCDN blog . If you have ideas about...
Presenting at AJAXWorld, Santa Clara
This coming Monday I'll be presenting at AJAXWorld in Santa Clara , 10:10 - 10:55am One of the demos I'll be showing off and demonstrating how to build is and deploy this Flickr / Google Maps using Bungee Connect to program against their REST(ish) service...
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...
Astoria: Data Services for the Web - Part 2
Back in April, the Data Programmability team at Microsoft announced "Astoria": Data Services for the Web , an incubation project exploring programming models for data over the web. As part of the announcement, the team deployed an online implementation...
RESTpectful comparison of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data APIs
Dare has written up RESTpectful comparison of the programming models of Microsoft's Astoria and Google Base Data API for querying relational data over the web (RESTful data services). Both these APIs also happen to support operations for changing the...
Mashup design patterns
<warning: the following post meanders , is unstrucutured and doesn't arrive at any conclusion> In the middle of last year, I invited Dion to meet with me and other members of Microsoft's Data Programmability team to discuss REST in the context of...
Bungee Labs - interviews on Podtech
Brad Baldwin of Rocky Mountain Voices , popped over to the Bungee Labs offices a couple of weeks back and recorded two video interviews for Podtech . Here they are: Bungee Labs and Their Ajax-Based IDE "After years of working with developers at Microsoft...
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