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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 I can see the slide deck discussing the Twitter...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-01-2008
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 service delivered purely in the cloud. Since we announced...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-19-2008
Outing dirty laundry

It's Jay Bazuzi's last day at Microsoft to become a stay-at-home dad . At one point Jay was development lead for the C# editor in VS. We've not met, and I'm sure he's a lovely chap and all that, but I did catch his parting wave on his MSDN blog, where he's provided some "tips" on software development...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-09-2007
The Web Standards Fluster Cuck

Clucking bell, Molly Holzshlag really has kicked the web standards beehive with a blog post expressing her great discontent with the W3C and WaSP . Ridiculously Inadequate Backgrounder Now, before you head off and read the post and the 60+ comments, here's a bit of background on why I find this post...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-13-2007
Interview with Peter Spiro - Building Great Databases

This is great video from Channel 9 - an interview with Peter Spiro , a Technical Fellow and Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. It's probably an understatement to describe Peter's career path as "unconventional", a path that lead to him eventually to accept a role at Microsoft in 1994 within the database...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-11-2007
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 available to programmers. Although they are not all...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-09-2007
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 of Astoria here , providing some sample read-only...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-03-2007
Ozzie's "Cloud OS" Raises More Questions than Answers

Ray Ozzie's briefing this week provided quite a bit more detail around Microsoft's "Software Plus Services" strategy. It's definitely worth a read (or a look , and if you're feeling too lazy for either you can read Nick Carr's summary ). It's been a year since Ozzie took over the role as Chief Software...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-27-2007
Software Design Patterns

I found some good info while researching best practice "design patterns", so thought I'd share these with you. First though, here's a reasonable definition of a "design pattern" in the realm of software, from Wikipedia : "In software engineering (or computer science), a design pattern is a general repeatable...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-20-2007
Irrelevant Programming Languages (Or, Lingo Not to Learn)

Mike Hendrickson has been analyzing some of Q1 2007 computer book sales data , where he's called out languages you'd be best served avoiding if you are young programmer... "The following languages all sold between 1 and 99 units in Q1 '07. These are what I am considering the irrelevant programming languages...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-20-2007

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