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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
Joining Intuit

Firstly - thanks to everyone who has reached out to me in the last three weeks via email, phone calls and comments since I shared the news of my pursuit for the next adventure - I have really appreciated everyone's support and interest in my next steps. The great news is I'll be joining Intuit as a Group...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 09-21-2008
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 of my own to add to the story: 1. I was reading...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-20-2008
Open Source in a SaaS World

About a year ago, I took part in a meeting where the question: "What does open source "mean" in a SaaS world?" came up in conversation. A year later, that same question is becoming increasingly pertinent as the IT industry's move to Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) and cloud-based computing accelerates...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-15-2008
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
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
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
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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