I had the good fortune to be invited to SAP’s Innovation Weekend 2010 in Berlin, a pre-cursory hackfest and idea exchange in the two days prior to the main SAP TechEd event at Messe Berlin. Walking around talking to people thinking, discussing, designing and building innovative prototypes covering a huge range of topics, I came [...]
This is a bit of a hand-wavy post, but I wanted to get my thoughts down. Recently there’s been a spate of interest around interaction with devices, applications and systems … via a chat-style interface. This is nothing new, of course. Bots have existed on the IRC networks for a long time. The venerable Purl, [...]
There’s an interesting article “HTTP PubSub: Webhooks and PubSubHubBub” that covers working with webhooks and points to a great HTTP / webhook developer utility “PostBin“, which: “lets you debug web lets you debug web hooks by capturing and logging the asynchronous requests made when events happen. Make a PostBin and register the URL with a [...]