State of Integration for Web Apps Today

Facilitated by Josh Crawford, Brattleboro Tech Collective

Josh will lead a wide-ranging discussion on how different developers are making use of XML feeds, JSON, OpenID, and other interoperability technologies. Microformat Design Patterns: how do you use them?

Notes

Raw (no formatting and typos)

• Introduce and talk about what people would like to talk about
• What are Microformats?
• What are the preferred formats?
• Whats the best way to use formats?

• Microformats
  • Standardizing pieces of information for context in HTML
  • For instance address markup in a standard format, or a calendar
  • Used for both Machine and Human
  • Embedded format
  • XML is a well defined solution
  • Encoourages more semantic content

Uses

• • Taking in a list of senators
  • Outputing data. Whats the best way?

Formats

• JSON
  • Data to javascript
  • Thin layer
  • Easy to produce and consume
• XML
  • More structured
  • Xtensibility
• YAML
  • Describe Ruby files
  • Ruby uses it a lot
  • Google uses for
• iCal, ICS, hCal

Choosing Format

• How does your programming language use the format?

• Bandwidth
  • Kayak created a priprietry format to save bandwidth.
  • MEdical data schema: HL7
    • In Africa, there is little to no bandwidth
    • Though a custom application, Goole wants to aggregate
  • XML has a lot of markup

Encryption

No standards

• MEdical data
  • Bandwidth
  • Standards
  • Encryption

Web vs Fields Standards

• Gerneal Data vs Specific Data like Medical

Creating Standards

• How to describe data?
• how to account for missing data?
• Address
  • Political issues like war
• ISO
  • Political
  • Structure Differences

Knowledge of Standards for Developers

• Realization of Standards

Roles of Standards