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Title:

How WebHooks Will Make Us All Programmers

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Organizer:
Jeff Lindsay, GliderLab
Description:
Programming will increasingly be the most empowering skill on earth... how do we bring it to more people? We can't rely on better academic programs if nobody is taking them! We have to bring back easy discovery and instant utility. See how webhooks (user-defined HTTP callbacks) are the missing link!
Questions
Answered:
  1. What are webhooks?
  2. What are web APIs?
  3. Why is the programmable web not really programmable?
  4. How is the web about more than information and content, or even community/social?
  5. Why is programming *that* important?
  6. What happens when the web is everywhere?
  7. What are true hackers and where do they come from?
  8. How is programming an important way to learn about the world?
  9. What kinds of amazing things can you do in a world of webhooks?
  10. What is the best way to change the future?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Back-End Programming / Databases, Community / Online Community, Education, New Technology / Next Generation, Web Apps / Widgets
Type:
Solo
Event:
Interactive 2010
Julien GENESTOUX
on 17/8/09
Awesome! Looking forward to that talk!
Drew LeSueur
on 17/8/09
Going to be an awesome talk.
chris foster
on 17/8/09
Jeff get's the direction Mashups need to go.

Give me an interface for RESTful API's resembling a modular synthesizer patchcord system in combination with the programming logic of the cutting edge HP12c calculator :D

In the excellent book "Mashup corporations" the author talks about employees being on the IT edge (shadow IT), using external web based tools in order to better do their jobs, connect with customers and create real value (and the boss remains clueless).

I hope Webhooks and beyond will enable "edge IT" as a legitimate part of ITC within organizations.
Ilya Grigorik
on 18/8/09
Looking forward to this one - more developers need to learn about webhooks.
Helder Ribeiro
on 18/8/09
I love the "programming to the people" approach!
Jeff Lindsay
on 21/8/09
Thanks for the positive feedback! Be sure to spread the word. I don't know if I'm popular enough to actually make it without help. :P
Simon Willison
on 26/8/09
Excited about this one.
Michael Parekh
on 27/8/09
Great agenda. Looking forward.
Saundra Kinnaird
on 3/9/09
Sounds like WebHooks is the direction the Web should/could be going...
Games Online
on 3/11/09
Sounds like a much needed session.
blu ray ripper
on 13/11/09
So looking forward to this..
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