Tom Marrs
ÜberConf
Denver · June 24 - 27, 2014
Lead Architect at LivingSocial
Tom Marrs is a Technical Architect at Perficient, where he specializes in RESTful Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). He designs and implements mission-critical web and business applications using the latest SOA, Ruby on Rails, JSON, HTML5, JavaScript, Java/EE, and Open Source technologies.
Tom is the author of the JSON Refcard for DZone, and the upcoming book, JSON at Work for O’Reilly. Tom is also a speaker at the Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) conference.
An active participant in the local technical community, Tom helps emcee at the HTML5 Denver User Group, helped found the Denver Open Source User Group (DOSUG), has served as President of the Denver Java Users Group (DJUG), and speaks at other local user groups.
Presentations
RESTful Design at Work
looking to improve your design. Maybe you're new to REST on your project. In any case, you have questions:
- Are there any guidelines and best practices for RESTful API design?
- How can I tell if a Web Service is truly RESTful?
- How do I design a quality Service?
- Where can I find well-designed RESTful APIs?
- Are there any design patterns and best practices for designing my RESTful Web Service?
- What REST Frameworks are available?
JSON at Work: Overview and Ecosystem
JSON is more than just a simple replacement for XML when you make an AJAX call. JSON is becoming the backbone of any serious data interchange over the Internet. All modern languages have excellent JSON API support. There are emerging standards and best practices that can be used to harness the energy and enthusiasm around JSON to build truly elegant, useful, and efficient applications. You’re already using JSON, and you may be thinking:
- What else is there to talk about?
- What additional tools and standards are available, and why do they matter?
- Everything is great, so how would these tools and standards help?*
- What is JSON Schema and when/how do I use it?