BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//OpenACalendar//NONSGML OpenACalendar//EN X-WR-CALNAME:dotnetsheff: Pursuit of APIness with Dylan Beattie and Adam Ha thcock with SharpCompress - Open Tech Calendar BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6214@otc.opentechcalendar.co.uk URL:https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/6214-pursuit-of-apiness-with-dylan -beattie SUMMARY:dotnetsheff: Pursuit of APIness with Dylan Beattie and Adam Hathcoc k with SharpCompress DESCRIPTION:Life\, Liberty and the Pursuit of APIness : The Secret to Happy Code\n\nWe spend our lives working with systems created by other people. From the UI on our phones to the cloud infrastructure that runs so much of the modern internet\, these interactions are fundamental to our experienc e of technology - as engineers\, as developers\, as users - and user exper iences are viral. Great user experiences lead to happy\, productive people \; bad experiences lead to frustration\, inefficiency and misery.\n\nWheth er we realise it or not\, when we create software\, we are creating user e xperiences. People are going to interact with our code. Maybe those people are end users\; maybe they're the other developers on your team. Maybe th ey're the mobile app team who are working with your API\, or the engineers who are on call the night something goes wrong. These may be radically di fferent use cases\, but there's one powerful principle that works across a ll these scenarios and more - and it's called discoverability. In this tal k\, we'll draw on ideas and insight from user experience\, API design\, ps ychology and education to show how you can incorporate discoverability int o every layer of your application. We'll look at some real-world systems\, and we'll discuss how how discoverability works with different interactio n paradigms. Because\, whether you're building databases\, class libraries \, hypermedia APIs or mobile apps\, sooner or later somebody else is going to work with your code - and when they do\, wouldn't it be great if they went away afterwards with a smile on their face?\n\nBio\n\nDylan wrote his first web page in 1992 and never looked back. He's the systems architect at Spotlight (https://www.spotlight.com/)\, the UK's leading casting servi ce for professional actors\, where he works on distributed systems\, hyper media APIs and\, and the challenges involved in introducing scalable archi tecture in a company where legacy systems generate most of the revenue.\nD ylan is a Microsoft MVP (https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/500 2699) and a regular speaker at conferences and user groups\, where he's sp oken about topics including continuous delivery\, Conway's Law\, the histo ry of the web\, federated authentication and hypermedia APIs. When he's no t wrangling code\, he plays guitar and writes songs about code (https://ww w.youtube.com/dylanbeattie).\n\nSharpCompress\n\nSharpCompress is a compre ssion library in pure C# for .NET 3.5\, 4.5\, .NET Standard 1.0\, 1.3 that can unrar\, un7zip\, unzip\, untar unbzip2 and ungzip with forward-only r eading and file random access APIs. Write support for zip/tar/bzip2/gzip a re implemented.\nhttps://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/6214-pursuit-of-apin ess-with-dylan-beattie\nPowered by Open Tech Calendar X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Life\, Liberty and the Pursuit
of APIness : The Secret to Happy Code
We spend our lives working wi
th systems created by other people. From the UI on our phones to the cloud
infrastructure that runs so much of the modern internet\, these interacti
ons are fundamental to our experience of technology - as engineers\, as de
velopers\, as users - and user experiences are viral. Great user experienc
es lead to happy\, productive people\; bad experiences lead to frustration
\, inefficiency and misery.
Whether we realise it or not\, when we
create software\, we are creating user experiences. People are going to in
teract with our code. Maybe those people are end users\; maybe they're the
other developers on your team. Maybe they're the mobile app team who are
working with your API\, or the engineers who are on call the night somethi
ng goes wrong. These may be radically different use cases\, but there's on
e powerful principle that works across all these scenarios and more - and
it's called discoverability. In this talk\, we'll draw on ideas and insigh
t from user experience\, API design\, psychology and education to show how
you can incorporate discoverability into every layer of your application.
We'll look at some real-world systems\, and we'll discuss how how discove
rability works with different interaction paradigms. Because\, whether you
're building databases\, class libraries\, hypermedia APIs or mobile apps\
, sooner or later somebody else is going to work with your code - and when
they do\, wouldn't it be great if they went away afterwards with a smile
on their face?
Bio
Dylan wrote his first web page in 1992 an
d never looked back. He's the systems architect at Spotlight (https://www.
spotlight.com/)\, the UK's leading casting service for professional actors
\, where he works on distributed systems\, hypermedia APIs and\, and the c
hallenges involved in introducing scalable architecture in a company where
legacy systems generate most of the revenue.
Dylan is a Microsoft MVP
(https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5002699) and a regular spea
ker at conferences and user groups\, where he's spoken about topics includ
ing continuous delivery\, Conway's Law\, the history of the web\, federate
d authentication and hypermedia APIs. When he's not wrangling code\, he pl
ays guitar and writes songs about code (https://www.youtube.com/dylanbeatt
ie).
SharpCompress
SharpCompress is a compression library in
pure C# for .NET 3.5\, 4.5\, .NET Standard 1.0\, 1.3 that can unrar\, un7
zip\, unzip\, untar unbzip2 and ungzip with forward-only reading and file
random access APIs. Write support for zip/tar/bzip2/gzip are implemented.<
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