Ben Werdmuller

Tag: oauth

  • The Open Stack and truly open APIs

    The following is an expanded version of the short talk I gave in Oxford yesterday. My original slides follow the transcript. There’s a new kind of web development afoot, which marries old-school object-orientated programming techniques with the distributed power of the web. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are published sets of instructions for programmatically querying or […]

  • Implementing open standards is too hard

    [..] the plain truth is this: it’s empirically way too painful still for first-time OAuth developers to get their code working, and despite the fact that OAuth is a standard, the empirical “it-just-works-rate” is way too low. Joseph Smarr: Implementing OAuth is still too hard… but it doesn’t have to be. This isn’t just true […]