From POX to HATEOAS, Our Company's Journey to Build a Hypermedia API

Excellent talk, including new material even for me. I'm going to have to look into a few of the practical tools mentioned, like vnd.error and HAL.

I had seen this talk on the master series, and it is very good, however not sure why I did not understand things I have already seen. Maybe about this time and being so far from the speaker made me sleepy and I got distracted. Please speak louder so that everyone can be drawn to what you are saying. The nice thing was the t-shirts you gave away. I got one :), and I ask you about the API, however I couldn't ask you more. I believe if you put a guzzle client plugin for OAuth2.0 open source that would be great. Please let me know. Thanks!

Great talk, Thanx!

Great talk, well researched but lacking the depth of real world experience. Still, I learned a lot and enjoyed it.

There were some very strange decisions with the API that was being 'demoed'. I expected the talk to be more of a tutorial in building a REST API from scratch, but instead it was like an auto-generated API demo page of the (non) RESTful FoxyCart API. Pretty disappointing.

Great talk -- the only reason that we have not fully committed to REST was because of no documentation for the routes. Your example of using HAL and links definitely answered some of those questions for us. I am looking forward to taking those ideas back to my company and having some serious discussions on the possibilities.

Excellent introduction that went beyond REST to cover specifics on hypermedia APIs. Luke is a very informed and passionate speaker about the topic. It was refreshing to have a topic go beyond commonly known REST best practices and delve into the technology and standards that can be used to take APIs to the next level.

Excellent talk, I was glad to see the focus on Hypermedia and differentiation between approaches that are commonly found. I also really enjoyed that Luke ensured all the questions were thoroughly answered, as the topic is more theoretically complex than what I'm used to. Very good presentation style, very easy to listen to and motivated me to learn more. Excellent talk and presentation, great work!

Excellent talk, I was glad to see the focus on Hypermedia and differentiation between approaches that are commonly found. I also really enjoyed that Luke ensured all the questions were thoroughly answered, as the topic is more theoretically complex than what I'm used to. Very good presentation style, very easy to listen to and motivated me to learn more. Excellent talk and presentation, great work!

interesting talk, and thanks for being not another REST intro talk but showing how you solved the actual problem. i was a bit lost as to how you expect this api to be used (client parsing and writing raw json versus having a client library that wraps this into objects...). some more concrete examples of why you took this or that design decision would have been interesting to see.

Thanks so much for the encouragement, everyone! If you'd like more details on our specific API project, we'll be blogging it. We already have a couple posts up you may find useful:

http://www.foxycart.com/blog/the-hypermedia-debate
http://www.foxycart.com/blog/hypermedia-dog-food

@Matthew D: thanks for meeting with me later in the conference to clarify your comment.
@David B: I've given this one a few times, and I think it started out as a story but then changed to include more details on what hypermedia actually is based on feedback. I should probably have a different title/description to better set expectations. As for a objects in a client library, that's a long, interesting discussion worth having. :)

Thanks again, everyone! I really appreciate your input.