Starting with a story, this year in March

I’d missed lunch, it was late. What do you do?

Write codes for fun

I wanted to use the internet

Yahoo pipes is pretty awesome and does some crazy stuff for data manipulation

Also, @lachlanhardy had convinced me that YQL wasn’t pure evil

a mere 46 minutes later, I was effected

“I need a new web site”

So, I made plans to build something

Not me, but what I felt like I did about it.

Yahoo pipes relook - Too hard to do what I want quickly.

I really like union, though...

and sort...

Smoke
Enter, Smoke

Take my website, see the circled image?

Take my website, see the circled image?

I grab all those photos from flickr using a special tag to choose relevant images

The links? Delicious

The links? Delicious

Projects, from github

Projects, from github

It takes all your sources and auto-magically translates them based on their content-type

Its like a fucking awesome monster for web services... that shits.. ouu.. well. You get the idea

Its like a fucking awesome monster for web services... that shits.. ouu.. well. You get the idea

You can output your sourced data as...

What about those front end guys?

A rack adapter to drop on top of your app, or simply deploy straight to the clouds that
exposes smoke sources.

/smoke
So, once you’re running, you can hit /smoke

You’ll get a self-documenting api

/smoke/twitter
Say you want to know about the twitter source

It’ll tell you that you need to supply a username for the stream and the formats that smoke-
rack will translate it to.

/smoke/twitter.json

/smoke/twitter.json
yaml
xml

Work only on the value of your mashup. Not the supporting crap. If you’re a content
producer, write API’s and give your users something to consume. Content consumers - Use

Presented at webjam10/11 in Sydney & Perth