In this episode we will take a look at how we can simplify our entity mapping by using AutoMapper.

AutoMapper uses a fluent configuration API to define an object-object mapping strategy. AutoMapper uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values. Current...

Learn how to use some of the new APIs that come with the WCF REST Starter Kit. You'll see how to take advantage of the new RequestInterceptor extensibi...

When you start caching html content which depends on data in your database, what happens when that data changes? You're going to need to expire that cache, and in this episode, we show you how Rails makes this quite easy

Everyone's had the problem of wanting to access and allow access to web services/APIs for extensions and plugins, but this usually means handling login...

with Joe Walker, Creator, Direct Web Remoting (DWR); Director, Support & Development, SitePen

This session looks at the new features of DWR version 3, including server proxy APIs and integration with Dojo, script.aculo.us, Pub/Sub message passing and integration with JMS and the OpenAjax ...

So your client emails you and asks, "Can you put one of those flashy maps on my contact page so that users can actually see our building from a satelli...

In this LRUG session, Paul Carey talks about CouchDB - a distributed schema-free document-oriented database built form the ground up to work with the web. Couch DB is accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API.

Paul took a particular interest in CouchDB about 6 months ago, when he began devel...

Paul Mison is going to do a short talk on libraries and abstractions for website APIs. Specifically how he thinks they should be written (and how he thinks they shouldn't be). The talk will mostly focus on Flickr, so an understanding of Flickr's API and the existing abstractions might be of use.

John Bresnik discusses the ruby library for the Facebook API, Facebooker, based on his production experience building Facebook applications. Presentati...

A well-written API can be a great asset to the organization that wrote it and to all that use it. Given the importance of good API design, surprisingly...