Get Ahead in the Clouds!

Today I spoke at 360iDev in Austin about work that I'd been doing to evaluate and build some different ways to create APIs and data services for iOS apps.  As an experiment, I put my presentation materials in EPUB form and presented with iBooks and an Elmo document camera.

Here's a link to my EPUB. To read it on your iPad or iPhone, add it with iTunes.

Get Ahead In The Clouds! (EPUB)  

Contents:

  1. APIs 101
  2. Google App Engine
  3. Building APIs with MongoDB
  4. APIs for Objective-C Geeks
  5. If that's not easy enough, One More Thing (StackMob)

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