Ben Werdmuller·May 28, 2009 The Open Stack and truly open APIs
The following is an expanded version of the short talk I gave in Oxford yesterday. My original slides follow the transcript.
There’s a new kind of web development afoot, which marries old-school object-orientated programming techniques with the distributed power of the web.
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are published sets of instructions for programmatically querying or extending a service. For example, the Google Maps API allows anyone with some development skills to build applicaData control·Software development
