Brian Sletten, Bosatsu Consulting

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has spanned the online games, defense, finance and commercial domains with security consulting, network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He is President of Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.and lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Brian focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.

Presentation: "Building Best Buy's BBY Open RESTful Commerce Engine"

Track: Building Systems With REST

Time: Thursday 10:35 - 11:35

Location: Henry Moore Room, Fourth Floor

Abstract:

In 2009, Best Buy became the first "brick and mortar" retailer to expose its product catalog API to third party developers. The Remix API provided access to content for over 1,000,000 current and historical products. In 2010, they introduced a new API allowing registered developers to handle the complete purchase workflow through their own applications. Account creation, order history, pricing and availability information are all offered, including the ability to specify in-store pick up and home delivery.

Rather than starting from scratch, the Best Buy Commerce team decided to layer a resource-oriented abstraction on top of its existing Web architecture to minimize the development effort and maximize the performance of the new API. The team adopted a fully hypermedia-driven Level 3 design to establish a stable but flexible integration strategy for existing and future partners.

This talk will describe the technical design, issues faced and procedures adopted to build, test and deploy an advanced RESTful API in a highly-transactional environment.

Workshop: "HTML 5 Workshop"

Track: Tutorials

Time: Tuesday 09:00 - 16:00

Location: Rutherford Room, Fourth Floor

Abstract:

People are confused about the status of HTML 5. Is it ready? Is it not? What is part of the spec and what isn't? We will introduce the most exciting new features of HTML 5 and its related technologies and build examples that use them. We will also visit some of the security issues associated with these technologies.

We will work with real code covering:

The new input elements
Editable content
Canvas Element and its related 2D APIs for drawing and animation
Audio and Video elements and how to use fallbacks for codec coverage
Browser native drag and drop
Local storage
Web Workers
Websockets
The Geolocation API
Web DB (SQL in the browser!)
This workshop will assume no special knowledge of HTML 5 and should be accessible to any web developers.

Bring your laptops. This is a hands-on workshop.