Michael Ottoson

aka biscuit314 michael@pointw.com michael.ottoson@greenshield.ca @biscuit314

I am an Application Architect with Green Shield Canada.

This is my first REST Fest, so please go easy on me :-)

I first started learning about REST 3 years ago. As a hobbyist I created what I thought was a RESTful API, but it lacked hypermedia. Someday I'll rewrite it. Maybe I'll show it to you warts and all (is anyone else a fan of the game Heroclix?)

What I learned during that effort I brought to work, learned about hypermedia, and helped guide our first internal implementations of a true hypermedia API.

I can't wait to meet you all, learn from you. They say there's no such thing as a dumb question. I'm bringing lots of them.

• Here is my <a href=http://www.slideshare.net/michaelottoson/biscuit314-rest-fest2014">5 in 5 slide deck.
• Here is the GitHub repos for the HAL Formatter I mentioned (the one we used during the bake-off). It is now more than a HAL formatter. See the docs for more details.