Geekcamp.SG 2012

Bitcoin by U-Zyn Chua uzyn.com is a weblog by U-Zyn Chua —A web developer and cloud computing consultant of Zynesis Consulting, based in Singapore.

HTML5 by Justin Lee (from RIM)

NodeJS and Socket.io by Bhagaban Behera

iOS Hacking and Security by Subh (from iOS Dev Scout)

Hardware is not boring by Dave Appleton

Common Lisp Macros by Elias Mårtenson

API Design by Mugunth http://speakerdeck.com/embed/503043fbedfca80002010b93?iframe=true&width=800&height=600

• HTTP verbs affect caching
• Versioning
  • with “accept” header
  • application/MyModel.1.0+json
  • initiate a model for that version from a factory
• HATEOS
  • JSON is not hypermedia
  • assumes client is also RESTful
• Documentation
  • document top level models
  • public/protected/hybrid
  • api.foursquare.com
• Denormalization
  • return all required info in a single response
• Caching
  • Expiration model
    • Expires:
    • for static data
  • Validation mode
    • ETag (model)
    • Last-Modified (list of models)
    • Cache-Control
    • for dynamic data
  • Client validation
    • If-Modified-Since
    • If-None-Match
• REST API Design Rulebook by O’Reilly