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  • Why OData Matters (IMHO)

    Earlier this week I was in the MIX10 crowd as Douglas Purdy announced the Open Data Protocol (it was a great presentation - summarized here ). I want to share with you why I think OData could be a very big deal…But before we go there...let's start with the basics... What is OData? Where Did OData Come...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-19-2010

  • 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

  • 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 directional flow: 2-way, and 1-way (either way...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-05-2008

  • 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 Services Framework Fri, March 7th - Accessing Windows...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-04-2008

  • 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

  • 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 the other. The video Google Chalk Talk was published...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-21-2008

  • 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 someone you think we should interview, let me know...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-20-2008

  • 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 data - inserting, updating, and deleting - Google...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 07-13-2007

  • REST / ROA / Astoria / SOA

    Jon Udell, rightly so, is getting excited about the new book RESTful Web Services , by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby - a book I myself got excited about in November ( REST Web Services and ROA ) when I wrote at the time: "My bet is that this project, the book and the concept of ROA as an effort to...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-24-2007

  • 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 data access over the web. Dion's perspective is...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-22-2007
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