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We need a new way to describe APIs, as the term moves beyond technical insiders. How the technology works is less important than what it makes possible. This talk re-orients the definition of API away from Application Programmer Interface and toward three ways that the technology is being used: Apps (distribution to every platform), Partners (forging business relationships), and Income (APIs make you money). The New API is about incorporating your business strategy into every aspect of your technical presence. And the best conduit for that is via APIs, which allow you to reach every app, expand your partnerships and grow your business' income.

By creating a good API, other apps can integrate with yours, which makes it much easier for new users to get involved. When everyone is already using a few dozen web apps already, convincing a user to adopt yours is not an easy sell. Many people are reluctant to sign up for yet another account. So how can we increase adoption of our web app? By creating a really good API that allows other apps to leverage your app’s functionality to improve their own. In this session Jason will cover how APIs allow you as a developer to turn your app into an indispensable service and the impact of an API has on your web app’s structure. Learn how Facebook, Twitter and Bit.ly use APIs to expand their app’s usefulness far beyond the app itself, and create a simple using PHP, jQuery, JSON, HTML5 and CSS3 to get familiar with creating APIs for your own apps.

There is an incredible need in our cities and towns for greater civic engagement. We have compelling opportunities before us to leverage emerging technologies to develop local, cost-effective solutions. With constant budget pressures and the impending generational shift, the time is ripe for a more highly engaged and technically empowered community to arise. I hope to inspire the audience to take their skills into their own communities to seek ways in which they can improve quality of life and foster cohesiveness.

Look who's using APIs now. Traditional IT has been optimized for protecting a walled garden of information transactions. In today's world of connected devices, consumerization of IT and BYOD, developers are turning IT inside out using APIs. Learn how Netflix, Coca-Cola, ESPN, CapitalOne, USA TODAY are moving beyond enterprise IT to effectively compete in today's API Economy with the help of developers inside and outside their companies

What does a successful next-gen web developer look like and how do they achieve success and keep building on it? Russell Reeder, President and COO of web hosting and cloud services provider (mt) Media Temple, will share insightful business advice that will help web developers take charge to reach ultimate success. Reeder will talk about why “It Depends” is neither an acceptable answer nor a winning state of mind, and why developers should put their business hat on when they approach their work. He will then walk the audience through different scenarios to show that, when developers put blinders on, they are not aiming for success, but for failure. Through collaboration with all elements of the business, developers can be the key to sustainable success. Reeder will also explain how developers should look beyond the code and identify the problem they are addressing. How? By fully understanding their competitive advantage and the market they are targeting.

Welcome to Day Two!

Apps come in many forms - games, e-commerce platforms, educational tools and many other variations. But critical to any app is understanding how consumers engage with apps and the companies that create them. Jamie Turner will take you on an interesting and engaging exploration of how humans connect with businesses via apps and what makes some apps succeed while others fail, with special attention paid to monetizing apps and trends and strategies for creating business apps.

Users are quickly becoming accustomed to real-time technology, so it’s no longer optional for developers; we need to get familiar with real time or get left behind. Real time itself has been around for years, but only recently has it become easily accessible for developers. With the coming-up of SaaS providers like Pusher and PubNub, it’s now extremely simple to implement cross-browser, backwards-compatible, fully functional real time capability into our applications. With just a few lines of our chosen back-end language and a JavaScript snippet, we can immediately start using real time right now, so there’s no excuse not to be using it. In this session, Jason will discuss what real time means, who’s using real time already, and where it is going. Using PHP, jQuery, Pusher, HTML5 and CSS3, Jason will demonstrate how to implement real-time features in your projects to solve real-world problems in five minutes!

It is an API world, and we're just consuming it. From service-oriented architectures to mobile applications, every application is being developed with an API. APIs are expected to provide stable and reliable end points but applications evolve, new features are added, and sometimes things just need to change. But when our APIs change, the clients that consume them often break. So we are generally left with two undesirable solutions: version the API and maintain legacy code well into the future, or break backwards compatibility leaving users behind. This scenario is an indication that your clients are tightly coupled to your API and have too heavy of a dependency on it. Object-oriented design is about managing dependencies and reducing the risk of change. Many best-practices can be applied to our APIs, giving them flexibility and resilience to change. Hypermedia provides object-oriented qualities to an API. It allows us to build a genuine interface to our applications, providing an abstraction to the implementation details. Using hypermedia, you can build an evolving API without fear of breaking compatibility to the clients that consume it.

You create data every time you use an activity monitor, social network, productivity tool or other connected application or device. In a perfect world every platform would make it simple to grab snapshots of your data, move it between systems, and combine information from different platforms. I'll talk about methods for snapshotting data from existing APIs, discuss how APIs could improve this and make data integration more seamless, and how you can create easy snapshotting tools for end users. This talk will be less about synchronous integration (where a system continuously updates based on another system) and more about grabbing your information from platforms in a usable format. Remember, any information you generate is your data. You should be able to get it, work with it, understand it and archive it.

Your app is humming along, fueled by a smorgasbord of APIs when suddenly something goes wrong. Now what? Debugging was easy when the code all lived on your servers. Now it's in the cloud and you don't know where to look first. In this talk John will discuss strategies for debugging API problems, monitoring your dependencies so you can sleep at night and mitigating problems before they ruin your day.

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