I’m glad to announce that I have been selected to speak at RuPy 2011 with a colleague of mine. RuPy is a conference in Poland about both Ruby and Python, and since we use both at Podio it seemed like a good conference to visit. Also we have yet to hire our first employee from Poland or any other East European country at Podio, so it could be a good chance for some networking.

The talk is titled “Dogfood your API” and is about the Podio API and how our entire web application is based on the API, never making a single direct database call. The API is written in Python and the web app in Ruby in Rails, so we will be able to touch upon both languages and frameworks in our talk.

I’ll be presenting with Christian Holm, the lead developer of Podio and main developer of the API. He will explain the evolvement of the API and some of the decisions made along the way, whereas I will talk mainly about the Ruby API client and something we call ActivePodio, which is an attempt to get interacting with a RESTful API to feel a bit like using ActiveRecord.

The talk is in Poznan, Poland on October 14th. If you can’t make it there, but are near Copenhagen, you can also see our rehearsal of the talk at the Copenhagen Ruby Brigade meeting on October 10th.

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