how to reinterpret the web in 180 seconds

How to reinterpret the web in 180 seconds or less

Ben Schwarz@benschwarzgermanforblack.com

One dayin March

Starting with a story, this year in March

2pmI’d missed lunch, it was late. What do you do?

Mashup time

Write codes for fun

I wanted to use the internet

Yahoo pipes is pretty awesome and does some crazy stuff for data manipulation

YQLAlso, @lachlanhardy had convinced me that YQL wasn’t pure evil

46 minutes later...

a mere 46 minutes later, I was effected

“I need a new web site”-Me, avoiding real work

This weekend

So, I made plans to build something

It’ll be fscking’ awesome

Then I did nothing until August

Not me, but what I felt like I did about it.

Yahoo pipes relook - Too hard to do what I want quickly.

I really like union, though...

and sort...

SmokeEnter, Smoke

Take my website, see the circled image?

Take my website, see the circled image?

I grab all those photos from flickr using a special tag to choose relevant images

The links? Delicious

The links? Delicious

Projects, from github

Projects, from github

Its a translator for web services

Smoke

RSS/AtomYQLJSONXML

It takes all your sources and auto-magically translates them based on their content-type

RSS/AtomYQLJSONXML

Its like a fucking awesome monster for web services... that shits.. ouu.. well. You get the idea

RSS/AtomYQLJSONXML

Its like a fucking awesome monster for web services... that shits.. ouu.. well. You get the idea

XMLYou can output your sourced data as...

YAML

JSON

or Ruby

Front end?

What about those front end guys?

Smoke::Rack

A rack adapter to drop on top of your app, or simply deploy straight to the clouds that exposes smoke sources.

/smoke

So, once you’re running, you can hit /smoke

You’ll get a self-documenting api

/smoke/twitter

Say you want to know about the twitter source

It’ll tell you that you need to supply a username for the stream and the formats that smoke-rack will translate it to.

/smoke/twitter.json

/smoke/twitter.jsonyamlxml

Create mashups faster

Work only on the value of your mashup. Not the supporting crap. If you’re a content producer, write API’s and give your users something to consume. Content consumers - Use Smoke.

Thankshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/maxblack/2655837607

http://github.com/benschwarz/smoke

http://github.com/benschwarz/smoke-rack

http://germanforblack.com

Slides online at slideshare.com/benschwarz

Presented at webjam10/11 in Sydney & Perth