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Fitbit – the Best Activity Tracker for Hackers and Makers
One of the presentations I give frequently is a talk on Quantifying your Fitness. In doing research for this topic, nI’ve worked with devices and APIs for a multitude of systems. Everyone has their favorite device, and I want to give some reasons to consider the Fitbit family of productsnas a great tool for anyone…
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Irresistible APIs Book
My book is out! Irresistible APIs is now available on Manning, on Amazon, and probably evennat bookstores in your area. Check it out and let me know what you think on twitter 🙂 See also my related post on Irresistible APIs on the site, andnI’ll have a link to the presentation I gave at Abstractions…
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Becoming a Polyglot
This article goes with the talk I gave at PolyConf 16 this year, on “Being a Polyglot.” As an API evangelist, I’m frequently put in a position where I need to provide sample code for my client developers, the folks who consume the API I’m charged with evangelizing. Our sample code is mostly in python…
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Hacking a Philips Hue Remote API in Node
I’m giving one of my favorite talks at Stir Trek this year – Quantifying your Fitness. Unfortunately, the IFTTT->Philips Hue connector has ceased to work and neither IFTTT nor Philips Hue has deigned to answer my plea for help. So, while Quantifying your Fitness used to use Twitter as glue, I needed to create a…
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Telling Your Story: Speaking for Non-Speakers
O’Reilly took the video down from their old site but here’s a link. This year I was honored to be invited to contribute to the OSCON talks on presentation skills with my own take, Telling Your Story. I was placed into a slot where I was likely to have plenty of worn out attendees, the…
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Quick Docker Getting Started
Docker’s cool. I mentioned this before, but hadn’t really made a great example for you to use for your own nefarious purposes… until now. I’ve created a base github repository where you can fork it, create your own docker container, and you and your users cal pull it to wreak consistently architected havoc all over…
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Promises, promises
This has got to be the fifty-bazillionth post about javascript promises with the same title out there, but I had a very particular problem I was trying to solve and had trouble finding the answer so once I got it working I wanted to share it with you. The challenge came about because I was…
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Glue-ing together APIs for GlueCon
Last year, at Defrag, I made my IoT rube goldberg machine made up of a sphero, hue lightbulb, raspberry pi and my drone. I might have accidentally almost attacked the audience with the drone. But it was a success and entertaining for all. This year, instead of doing that, I’m doing a fitness Rube Goldberg machine.…
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New Book on MEAP: Irresistible APIs
APIs have been exploding across the internet for several years now, but we are just now getting to the point where the industry can start implementing best practices in design. Up until now, most APIs have been designed at the architecture level, figuring out what the backend system does and exposing that functionality to users in…
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Ask the Princess: Episode 1
This is the first in a series of posts entitled “Ask the Princess.” I am a princess and a polymath, and I’ve got lots of opinions and experience around various things. Topics covered here will be mostly about building APIs, but can cover martial arts, parenting, politics, or anything else anyone chooses to ask me…