RESTful APIs

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems. The World Wide Web is the key example of a RESTful design. Much of it conforms to the REST principles.

There are a lot of APIs today that are RESTful, and I've found this makes it really easy to hack together small applications to get at data and do what you want with it.

This (proposed) session would look at some of the RESTful APIs available today and explain how they work, and maybe get into showing some simple sample code.