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API Strategy & Practice Reboot, February 21st, 22nd 2013
It’s been 2 weeks since New York City was hit by hurricane Sandy, and while things aren’t back to normal, everyone is beginning to look to the future, and starting the process of moving past the devastating storm.
With this spirit in mind, …
The Business of APIs 2012, San Francisco
My favorite part of the BAPI conference is always the developer’s panel, moderated by Delyn Simons.
Does The Way I Look Make You Uncomfortable? Ok Now You’re Ready for APIs!
I’ve been getting more comments lately about my appearance, as my API evangelism penetrates the enterprise and government. Specifically regarding my beard.
Hackathons are more than talent acquisition and start-up funding
Dubbed by some “the tornado Hackathon” this event hit close to the bone.
The Demand for API and Developer Evangelists
I just got off the phone with a recruiter of a major API management company, looking to recruit me as a developer evangelist, and last week I talked with two companies looking for developer evangelists.
My profile comes up in a lot of searches on Goog…
Community: my first steps
Time flies. 15 years ago I published my first community fuelled website. It’s long gone of course but I can still tell the story. It all started with an anniversary One of my all-time favourite children’s TV show went into it’s 25th year at the time. I still watched it on a regular basis and [...]
Take license. Give license?
Over a recent back and forth with @jimmyjacobson, I was trying to solidify my thinking on why I’m so anti-JS, anti-clientside development. This is practically sacreligious in the age of AJAX, jQuery, and JSONP. Buzz words of great importance. Let’s first define the problem domain. I understand that there’s all sorts of wonderful user experience [...]
APIs in DFW
I just got back from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I visited Dallas last night to help kick off the first gathering of the DFW API Professionals Meetup.
We got together at Microsoft around 6PM and I talked from 6:30 until 8:00, evolving on my From Web, …
Adding API Broker Under Monitoring for API Aggregators
As I’m monitoring the API space I’m trying to create meaningful grouping for companies to belong when tracking API trends. My groupings are sometimes in alignment with what we hear in the tech blogosophere, but other times I try new definitions to he…
The Dark Matter That Make APIs Work
I encounter many enterprise folks who dismiss APIs as nothing more that just one of the technical building blocks of SOA. Folks who, no matter how much I explain, will never see APIs beyond a technical specification and implementation.
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