Web development as we do it right now is on the way out. The future of the web is what its founders have planned a long time ago: loosely joined pieces of information for you to pick and choose and put together in interfaces catered to your end users. In this session, see how to build a web portfolio that is always up-to-date, maintained by using the web rather than learning a bespoke interface and high in performance as the data is pulled and cached for you by a high traffic server farm rather than your server. If you wondered how you can leave your footprint on the web without spending thousands on advertising and development, here are some answers.
1. the Web of Data
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Las Vegas, Nevada 17. March 2010
16. Why A PIs work
Applica$on Programming Interface
End Users
Data
Source Developers
Other
Apps
17. Why A PIs work
Applica$on Programming Interface
End Users
On‐demand delivery of the needed
Data data in the right format.
Source Developers
Access of the data source only when
needed ‐ otherwise caching works.
Other
Apps
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key=tpWDkIZMZleQaREf493v1Jw&output=csv" and
columns="Year,City,Sport,Discipline,Country,Event,
Gender,Type" and Year="1924"