Slides from Mash it Up Camp OKC

1. Your Government is about to be MASHED UP!
Mash it Up Camp OKC May 7, 2011
WYNNNETHERLAND

2. whoami

3. @pengwynn

4. +

6. This talk is...
Info
Philosophy
20% 28%
Inspiration
20%
Stats
Tools 1%
30%

8. I write API wrappers

9. A lot of API wrappers
I write API wrappers

10. Why?

11. Idiomatic access
in your language of choice

12. "chartItem": [{
"songName": "Lonely Runs Both Ways",
"artistName": "Alison Krauss + Union Station",
"peek": 1,
"catalogNo": "610525",
"rank": 1,
"exrank": 1,
"weeksOn": 65,
"albumId": 655684,
...

13. "chartItem": [{
"songName": "Lonely Runs Both Ways",
"artistName": "Alison Krauss + Union Station",
"peek": 1,
"catalogNo": "610525",
"rank": 1,
"exrank": 1,
"weeksOn": 65,
"albumId": 655684,
...

14. "chart_item": [{
"song_name": "Lonely Runs Both Ways",
"artist_name": "Alison Krauss + Union Station",
"peek": 1,
"catalog_no": "610525",
"rank": 1,
"exrank": 1,
"weeks_on": 65,
"album_id": 655684,
...

15. Higher level API

16. Syntactic sugar

17. Twitter::Search.new.from('jnunemaker').to('pengwynn').hashed('ruby').fetch()

18. Method chaining
Twitter::Search.new.from('jnunemaker').to('pengwynn').hashed('ruby').fetch()

19. Some T words , fool!

20. TRANSPORT

21. Sync vs. Async

22. TRANSFORMATION

23. Why is SOAP so dirty?
JSON, XML parsers

24. TESTING

25. Fixtures, mocks, and playback

26. TOOLS

27. REST Console for Chrome

28. Apigee

29. HTTP Scoop

30. Charles Proxy

31. See my complete Ruby API wrapper deck

32. My rep @michaelcburgess
is on Twitter. Is yours?

34. and aggregator
^
The idea: A Twitter directory for the US Congress

35. “We the Tweeple of the United
States, in order to form a more
perfect government, establish
communication, and promote
transparency do hereby tweet the
Congress of the United States of
America.”

36. Small ideas can have a big impact

40. Mash up your passions, have fun

42. Congress API

43. Transparency Data API

44. Open States API

45. Real Time Congress API

46. Govkit

47. Campaigns, Congress, News

48. More!

49. Mashes nicely with some of these
Commercial APIs

50. Resources an d thanks for having me!
lides!
wynn.fm/mashcamp
gra b t he s
blog: wynnnetherland.com
twitter: @pengwynn
email: wynn@hp.com
linkedin.com/in/netherland