Best practices for web service design

Lorna Jane Mitchell (Feb 26, 2010 at 15:30)
Talk at PHP UK Conference 2010 (English - UK)

Rating: 5 of 5

This session is aimed at programmers, architects and analysts alike, delving into some examples of ways to write really excellent and useful services. We'll cover selecting the right service type to use and how to design a flexible, maintainable system with an outward-facing API that will have your users easily utilising its features. There will be tips and tricks on helping minimise user confusion (and resulting bug reports) and how to achieve robust services and happy users who cite your application as their 'must-have'.

 
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Rating: 5 of 5

Feb 26, 2010, 17:18 by DUGi

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Rating: 4 of 5

Feb 26, 2010, 17:25 by ijansch

Nice overview of best practices. When beet practices are preached, you know that a certain technology has become main stream.

Rating: 5 of 5

Feb 26, 2010, 17:28 by henrikbjorn

Excellent !!

Rating: 5 of 5

Feb 26, 2010, 17:29 by Anonymous

Great - gives me confidence to try it out, thanks!

Rating: 4 of 5

Feb 26, 2010, 17:30 by dom.udall

Stole my question in the last few slides, always good. Good points all round, nice coverage, confident and clear speaker. Overall very good.

Rating: 5 of 5

Feb 26, 2010, 17:32 by Stereoket

Upbeat, engaging and brilliant overview of building a web service. Thanks Lorna

Rating: 5 of 5

Feb 26, 2010, 20:30 by andytson

Good summary of RPC/REST even though I knew them to that level. I'm sadly a SOAP fan and have come to the same problems before regarding arrays though I'd prefer libraries to get more consistent than to ingore it.

Rating: 5 of 5

Feb 26, 2010, 21:58 by marcgear

Really good coverage of all the issues, wonderful to see someone so passionate about thier topic. Lorna didn't need her bullet point ridden slides. Really good use of anecdotes too. Would have liked to see some content touch on performance, bit otherwise superb. Can't fault. Look forward to Lorna speaking more.

Rating: 5 of 5

Feb 27, 2010, 08:41 by akrabat

Excellent coverage of the subject by an expert.

Rating: 4 of 5

Feb 27, 2010, 12:21 by lastcraft

Nothing new for me, but I could see that it was the right level for a general audience. Came alive for me when she dipped into her personal experience. More stories would have been nice.

Rating: 4 of 5

Feb 27, 2010, 12:22 by le6o

Some good points to tale away and think about. Felt like it went on too long though, probably as it was the last of the day.

Rating: 5 of 5

Feb 27, 2010, 12:54 by manes

Great speaker, great presentation. I would have mentioned that REST has been around for 10 years but it has become popular only fairly recently. Probably not big deal for many, but I just can't help thinking why it took so long.

Rating: 5 of 5

Feb 27, 2010, 19:20 by pavlakis

An enjoyable presentation - as usual :)

I'm curious enough to give it a go now. Thanks

Rating: 5 of 5

Feb 28, 2010, 11:35 by Anonymous

Been linked there by some german phpcommsite but u did a great job. Greetings from where the good whine comes from.

Rating: 4 of 5

Mar 1, 2010, 11:06 by craigwillis

Interesting and engaging stuff. Was quite interested in hearing real time stories about where she's used REST etc

Rating: 5 of 5

Mar 1, 2010, 13:57 by loonytoons

Really interesting and well presented talk.
Went in with a mixed amount of interest, came out with a plan to build my own web service! Can't get much better than that.

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