Frank Mantek, Google

A former long time Microsoft employee, Frank Mantek joined Google in 2005 to work on the Google Data API. His past work include SQLXML, Internet Explorer, and other Microsoft technologies.

When he is not working on new data technologies, he enjoyes playing the Djembe really loud.

Presentation: "Google GData: reading and writing data on the web"

Track: The Cloud as the New Middleware Platform

Time: Wednesday 14:30 - 15:30

Location: Fleming Room

Abstract:

The Google Data API provides programmatic access to a variety of Google assets, including Calendar, Blogger, Picasa, CodeSearch, and Google Base. Composed of a simple query language and the Atom Publishing protocol (IETF draft), it provides search, read, and update capabilities.

An active developer community at code.google.com created Google GData client libraries for many languages. This talk reviews the motivation and lessons learned behind creating a universal API to be used over the Web.

Presentation: "Panel: Programming the Cloud"

Track: The Cloud as the New Middleware Platform

Time: Wednesday 17:00 - 18:00

Location: Fleming Room

Abstract: TBA