I want my kids to able to build an API

A 5 minute presentation for RESTFest 2014 about how we need to start collaborating and making actionable decisions about things like media types, semantic profiles and serialization.

Transcript

1. @nashvillecoder Steve Brownlee @nashvillecoder #restfest 1 of 16
2. I want my kids to able to build an API Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 3 of 16
3. Mountaintop Removal Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 2 of 16
4. we need to be in this business Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 3 of 16
5. There’s a huge mountain filled with “REST” APIs Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 4 of 16
6. Institutional Inertia Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 5 of 16
7. Two-pronged evangelism Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 6 of 16 Hypermedia education Developer tooling
8. Developer Tooling Introduction to Polymer \ @coderfaire \ #cf2014 7 of 16
9. “A REST API should be entered with no prior knowledge beyond the initial URI (bookmark) and set of standardized media types that are appropriate for the intended audience…” - Roy Fielding, 2008 Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 8 of 16
10. Introduction to Polymer \ @coderfaire \ #cf2014 9 of 16
11. visual hypermedia explorers Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 10 of 16
12. Product owners care about Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 11 of 16 • Branding • User engagement • Selling stuff
13. Product development & validation tool Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 11 of 16 Code development tool
14. extensible client code generators Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 12 of 16 imagine yeoman + sublime text
15. smart API code generators Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 13 of 16 think stub generation from semantic profiles
16. We need to be moutain removers Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 14 of 16 We need to be speedway builders
17. Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 15 of 16 Internet of Things
18. We need to have a cage match Mountaintop removal \ @nashvillecoder \ #restfest 16 of 16