Speakers: Tom Hughes-Croucher

Session

Give it a REST; Making your web service behave like the web

Web Services are a pretty hot topic right now. There are a number of ways to make a web service, but the one that has worked for services like Flickr and Delicious is to use the REST architecture. Learn how using the design ideas from REST can improve your Web Service in a number of critical ways.

Bio

Tom Hughes-Croucher has been working in the Internet industry since he has been working. He has contributed to a number of standards on Web technology for standards bodies such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the British Standards Institute (BSI). More recently he worked in the Digital Music business providing digital music solutions to well known UK brands like Tesco, Three telecom and Channel 4.

Tom now works for Yahoo! as a technical evangelist. Specialising in front-end web technology and RESTful web services he likes to promote best practice whereever he can. Before that he looked after the European Frontpages serving many millions of European visitors a month—he just doesn’t find scaling scary any more.