Larry Staton Jr. - RESTFest/2012-greenville GitHub Wiki

Larry Staton Jr. is a software engineer at Hendrick Automotive Group where he designs, develops, and deploys business systems. Fluent in various flavors of Ruby, Objective-C (iOS and Cocoa), and JavaScript, I'm unlearning "Rails REST" and learning how to properly implement hypermedia APIs.

FUN FACT: I'm fascinated by functional programming languages and state machines, but I'm not sure why. These paradigms seem to fit my brain.

Proposed Talks

Title PUTting Facts
Level Beginning, Five In Five
Abstract I watched Rich Hickey's keynote address titled "The Value of Values" and I want to explore how these ideas fit into Hypermedia API design. If I PUT a new fact to resource, how should the server respond? What should the response look like? Let's explore.
Supplemental InfoQ page with video of Rich Hickey's keynote address
Slides https://speakerdeck.com/u/statonjr/p/five-in-five
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