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Tri-XML 2006 presentation

Here's the abstract of the talk I gave this morning at Tri-XML 2006:

Beyond blogging: Atom format and protocol. Like XML-RPC and SOAP before, feeds and publishing protocols were born in the blogopshere and quickly moved beyond blogging. Nowadays, web service providers are using RSS/Atom feeds and REST-based publishing protocols as lightweight alternatives to SOAP. And developers are finding new ways to combine web services from different sites into new applications, known as "mash-ups" in the lingo of Web 2.0. If you'd like to do the same, then attend this talk to learn about the new IETF Atom feed format (RFC-4287) and the soon-to-be-finalized Atom protocol, which together form a strong foundation for REST-based web services development.

Here's a rough outline of the talk:

Introduction

Beyond blogging
Blogs hit the hit time
The web is bloggy
Atom as an alternative to WS-*

Understanding feeds

Birth of RSS
RSS 1.0: the RDF fork
The simple fork and RSS 2.0
Atom: the standard

Parsing feeds

Fetching and parsing feeds
Universal Feed Parser
ROME utilities
Windows RSS platform

Serving feeds

Approaches for generating and serving feeds
Feed autodiscovery
Styled feeds

Atom protocol

Compared to MetaWeblog
REST based approach
Introspection
Collections
Extending Atom

Atom protocol in action

Getting a service doc
Getting collections
Posting an entry
Posting an image

Demo: interacting with an Atom server via command-line

And here are the slides: TriXML2006-BeyondBlogging.pdf

Tags: Atom Publishing Protocol, Atom, APP, RSS, feeds

Dave in Blogging 12:12PM Jul 29, 2006 Comments[5]

Tags: app atom rss blogapps

Comments:

Bug reports: <ul> <li>Page 4: mention the RSS-DEV working group (authors of <a href="http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec">RSS 1.0</a>)</li> <li>Page 19: A more fair and accurate portrail would be that the fork was over <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndication/message/218">modularity, namespaces</a>, and desire for decentralized control.<li> <li>Page 26: dc:date is supposed to be in W3CDTF format</li> <li>Page 33: RSS 1.0 is based on RSS 0.90</li> <li>Page 37: UFP is <a href="http://tinyurl.com/k4joa">MIT licensed</a></li> </ul> Suggestions: <ul> <li>Page 28: mention relative URIs as an area where the spec is too loose.</li> <li>Page 35: People need to be aware of <a href="http://intertwingly.net/blog/2006/03/13/Common-Feed-Errors">Common Feed Errors</a></li> </ul>

Posted by Sam Ruby on July 29, 2006 at 01:04 PM EDT #

Thanks for the bug reports and the link Sam, especially the historical notes. I'll fix it up before I give it again next month at the Charlotte Java User Group (<a href="http://www.charlottejug.org/?q=node/45">Aug 21, 2006</a>).

Posted by Dave Johnson on July 29, 2006 at 04:58 PM EDT #

I also need to give credit to <a href= "http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000585.html">David Heinemeier Hansson</a> for use of his charming WS-Deathstar image.

Posted by Dave Johnson on July 29, 2006 at 05:29 PM EDT #

I think this is a wonderful presentation, even if you make fun of the work that I have been doing for the past five years. :-)

Posted by douglasp on July 30, 2006 at 04:55 PM EDT #

<p>More bugs (typos, really):</p> <ul> <li>Pages 24 and 26: example missing slash in closing <b> tag in <description>.</li> <li>Page 33: Internet Engineering Task For[m]ce (IETF)</li> </ul>

Posted by Gabriel Farrell on August 09, 2006 at 05:30 PM EDT #