Cambridge does "REST" a day conference with leading REST speakers (PLANNING)
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Cambridge does "REST" a day conference with leading REST speakers (THis is the planning Sesh!)
Best practices around building and consuming RESTFUL API's, using leading REST frameworks.
We're planning to get guest speakers, and open coding sessions, covering the following technologies:
(request for help with planning - meet for beers )
If you are available Thursday evening (10th Jan), 7:30pm, to join us for drinks and help us with some planning so that we can bring some of the top REST speakers to Cambridge, then we'd love to hook up with you. (Please rsvp here to join us for Thursday night's drinks and planning (http://www.camdug.com/events/43816292/)).
.NET RESTFUL Frameworks
#WebApi (WCF) (http://wcf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Getting%20started:%20Building%20a%20simple%20web%20api) .. Speakers to be confirmed
Asp.NET MVC .. (restful ajax?) Speakers to be announced
#OpenRasta (https://github.com/openrasta/openrasta-stable/wiki/Why-Choose-OpenRasta) .. Sebastian Lambla (to be confirmed)
#NancyFx (http://nancyfx.org/) ..
#ServiceStack (http://www.servicestack.net/) .. speaker to be confirmed
Any specific "contrib" projects?
(to help get a speaker for your favourite rest framework, please join the planning)
RUBY
#Sinatra (http://www.slideshare.net/adamwiggins/lightweight-webservices-with-sinatra-and-restclient-presentation) .. Speakers to be announced
(other ? please advise )
Node.js
Express .. speakers to be confirmed
Cloud9IDE (http://c9.io/) ( hands on introduction and training to building and consuming and testing restful services, using Cloud9IDE.. "your code... anywhere (http://c9.io/)". )
IPhone - Apple, Andrion ?
(to be announced)
Java
(to be announced)
( as you can see, loads of .net goodness here, but bit thin on Ruby, Java and Node. We need volunteers to help us put together a balanced conference)
A whole day conference, and "pre-conference networking and drinks" the night before, consisting of hands on coding sessions and guest speakers from leading REST frameworks. This conference is currently being planned.
Please RSVP to this meetup to show your support. The more people who RSVP, the easier it is for us to get permission from sponsor companies to pay for a guest speaker to travel to Cambridge and present.