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Re: Apiary Releases ‘World's First’ Automated API CI Testing Service - The New Stack

Bruno Pedro — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 16:05:23 -0000

Very insightful article, especially the traction chart. It's interesting to see increased interest from the developer community in machine-readable API documentation, measured in the chart by the number of Stack Overflow questions.

Re: REST vs SOAP: Nordic APIs Infographic comparison

Bruno Pedro — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:58:58 -0000

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the comment. Here's my reply about authentication:

Firstly, there was never a mention to "authentication" on the infographic. There's a mention to "security and authorization". These can be implemented using WS-Security (see https://www.oasis-open.org/....

Re: REST vs SOAP: Nordic APIs Infographic comparison

Bruno Pedro — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:38:29 -0000

Hi Ioseb,

Thanks for the great feedback. Let me try to reply to some of your comments:

1. "Contracts in REST are defined at least of Media Type(s) and underlying Application Protocol. The contract can be as strict as needed." – If you're talking about JSON Schema then this is wrong because "JSON Schema limits itself to describing the structure of JSON data, it cannot express functional constraints.", in http://json-schema.org/exam...

2. "Being stateless does not mean that one can not do transactions that involve multiple 'calls'. It can be coordinated through resource representations and this statement is false." – This is wrong because to be able to perform a transaction there needs to be coordination between client and server and "each request from client to server must contain all of the information necessary to understand the request, and cannot take advantage of any stored context on the server.", in "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures", Roy Thomas Fielding, §5.3.1

3. "Information about 'objects' should be communicated and it is either communicated directly through Media Type specification, micro formats or profiles." – This is wrong because the information being communicated is about resources, not objects, and "a resource is a conceptual mapping to a set of entities, not the entity that corresponds to the mapping at any particular point in time."

4. "I wanna see good example over UDP." – Please read the specification which includes a number of examples: http://docs.oasis-open.org/...

Re: What is USV Reading?

Bruno Pedro — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:37:51 -0000

I'm currently reading "Who Owns the Future" by Jaron Lanier and "The Year Without Pants" by Scott Berkun.

Re: A new development era (essay)

Bruno Pedro — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:01:23 -0000

Application paradigms are cyclic.

Before the PC era, applications used to live almost entirely on the server. You had a "thin client" (the terminal) from where you could access and use the application.

The PC brought more resources to the client and made us develop richer client side apps. Servers were used merely for exchanging user information and data.

Then, the Web browser came and everything changed again. The browser became the thin client like the terminal once was, and all application logic moved back into the server.

Now we're facing the same challenge developers faced when the PC was introduced to the market: how to build apps with the same (or better) functionality as before, using the resources provided by the Web browser, now growing in thickness?

I believe that these cycles are associated with availability of computing power to the general public and the introduction of new devices. Whenever computing power increases on the clients, they become thicker and more apps are built to run on it. Whenever the server computing power increases, it makes more sense to develop server side functionalities.

Re: http://periferi.co/post/4530661122

Bruno Pedro — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:04:21 -0000

Nice post -- there are obviously many more examples of entrepreneurial activity in the country but I agree that there's a growing tendency from the last couple of years.

I'd say that we need more activity and we need to aim higher when building something from scratch.

Re: Seed Capital invests in Bundlr

Bruno Pedro — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:06:03 -0000

Great news!

Congratulations to the Bundlr team for the deal. We should meet more often!

Re: How about a question and answer plugin for blogs?

Bruno Pedro — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:30:27 -0000

It's already here and it's called DISQUS.

We're using it right now: you posted a question and we're answering it down here. You can "like" an answer voting it up and even reply.

Re: The Future of QR codes

Bruno Pedro — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:32:37 -0000

I'm not sure I understood the issue you're describing: are you saying that the value from the information you get after you decode the QR code is not good enough?

Re: The Future of QR codes

Bruno Pedro — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:19:34 -0000

QR codes are popping everywhere these days.

Have you seen AVIN which is like an ISBN for wine and can enhance the information about a particular wine by using a QR code on the bottle label?

Re: The real-time curation wars (exclusive first look at Curated.by)

Bruno Pedro — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:26:06 -0000

I agree that it's a tough balance between having a static blog post that can be easily distributed through RSS and having an always updated widget. Anyway, I think that's a feature journalists would like to have.

Keepstream looks very interesting! I'm following your twitter account.

Re: The real-time curation wars (exclusive first look at Curated.by)

Bruno Pedro — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:40:10 -0000

Yes, I saw the embedded widgets and it's great that they keep pulling information as time goes by.

What I'm talking about is the ability to generate a static blog post after I feel the bundle has the information I need. I can then edit my blog post and eventually publish it.

Don't you think this could be an interesting feature?

Re: The real-time curation wars (exclusive first look at Curated.by)

Bruno Pedro — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:57:10 -0000

Does it actually publish the post to your blog or does it stay inside the bag?

Re: The real-time curation wars (exclusive first look at Curated.by)

Bruno Pedro — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:29:12 -0000

This is great news for the real time news people. They all look good but I'd love to see the added capability of actually publishing a blog post from a bundle.

You should also keep an eye on Bundlr at http://gobundlr.com/

Re: live.hackr : Google Mini-Me

Bruno Pedro — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:36:54 -0000

Great thoughts about the direction of Google Me. Thanks for mentioning tarpipe as an example of the "social writer".

Re: Scripting News: OAuthcalypse didn't kill my apps

Bruno Pedro — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:26:10 -0000

twitter actually took longer to switch off all Basic Auth POST calls, which are the ones used by applications that want to publish something.

We've been acquiring some information since before the OAuthpocalypse and here's an interesting chart showing that publishing was still possible until 9/2 2:30am GMT: http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Re: WebtopMania: How to send posts to twitter, jaiku and pownce all at once.

Bruno Pedro — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:33:03 -0000

Hi Paul and thanks for the feedback,

Are you using the bookmarklet as-is or did you change it? If you're using it as-is, it won't work because you're not sending any image, right?

Can you use the bookmarklet with a simpler workflow, e.g., one that just sends back an e-mail message to you?

Re: Looking for Android app recommendations

Bruno Pedro — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:36:46 -0000

Great, thanks! What is the best way to reach you?

Re: Looking for Android app recommendations

Bruno Pedro — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:15:20 -0000

Springpad for Android is great!

When are you launching an API? I'd love to add Springpad to our list of publishing destinations!

Re: Looking for Android app recommendations

Bruno Pedro — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:02:36 -0000

Try these:

- Aldiko (ebook reading): http://www.aldiko.com/
- Barcode (and QR code) scanner: http://code.google.com/p/zx...
- Dropbox: http://www.dropbox.com/android
- Gist (social CRM): http://blog.gist.com/2010/0...
- Last.fm (obviously): http://www.last.fm/group/La...
- Google Listen: http://listen.googlelabs.com/
- Google My Tracks: http://mytracks.appspot.com/
- Shazam: http://www.shazam.com/music...
- Wordpress: http://android.wordpress.org/

Re: 9 years of Quodis

Bruno Pedro — Wed, 05 May 2010 08:30:51 -0000

Huge congratulations Leo!

9 years is a very long time and, like you say, a lot of things can happen. Growing is a factor of persistence and commitment and you have plenty of both!

Re: Google Maps for Android Get Buzz Support

Bruno Pedro — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:13:17 -0000

I'm using Latitude to update and it shows up on my Google Buzz. My previous Latitude friends are able to see my updates but I'm not sure everyone else is seeing them.

Here's my profile: http://www.google.com/profi...

Re: AVC People

Bruno Pedro — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:33:38 -0000

Now this would be a great feature for DISQUS or other blog comment solution: automatically build a list of "regulars" -- people who often comment on your blog -- and optionally update a twitter list.

If anyone from DISQUS is reading, what do you think?

BTW, I'm @bpedro on twitter.

Re: Towards a web of activity streams realizing the synaptic web paradigm

Bruno Pedro — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:41:16 -0000

Great summary of all the innovation that's taking place on the stream-based Web interaction space.

My feeling is that twitter might, in fact, become the de facto standard API for all Web publishing. Why? First, their developer base is incredibly huge making it very appealing to any application to offer compatibility with the twitter API. Second, their API is so simple yet can be easily adapted to many different publishing objects -- WordPress and Tumblr are just a few initial examples of this.

If the ecosystem keeps building up, we'll see huge growth on the client side as well as the upstream application support, meaning that, in the future, any twitter client will let you push content into any publishing platform.

Now about the "sixth-sense" and the ability to gather intelligence from all the information inside streams. I very much believe this is going to happen sooner than later. I'm not talking about a bodily sixth-sense but more in a way to gain access to information that you wouldn't otherwise obtain.

The beginning of this is going to happen when people move from the "following" and "river of news" paradigm into a stream of recommended information based on what you're doing -- let's call this "implicit recommendations".

These implicit recommendations will soon jump out of the twitter-sphere into our everyday lives: automatic TV personalization, GPS based recommended routing and in-place product suggestions are just examples of a future where people will think less and do more based on the common knowledge of the Web.

Re: Why Social Beats Search

Bruno Pedro — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:05:25 -0000

Not only advertising but also the ability to suggest other links you might find relevant, hence helping you through your daily reading.