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Talkby tomhermans.com
@tomhermans

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HOWDY, I'M
www.tomhermans.com
@tomhermans

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DESIGNER & DEVELOPER
workedfor

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YeloPlay
Telenet's digitalTV webplatform

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WHAT IS WORDPRESS ?
IS IT A CMS OR .. ?

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APPLICATION PROGRAM
INTERFACE
set ofstandardizedways
whichgovernhow other pieces ofsoftwarecantalktoa
programandhow it willrespond

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WP API’S
XML-RPC & FRIENDS (ATOM..)
XML remoteprocedurecall
mobileapp
ADMIN-AJAX
lightweight routinglayer
responds w/ JSON
RSS
openstandardsyndicationformat

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THE
WORDPRESS
REST API

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RESTFUL API'S
Twitter
Instagram
Facebook
WordPress.com
Stripe, .. andmany many more

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REST : REPRESENTATIONAL
STATE TRANSFER
communicateviaHTTP
sameHTTP verbs (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.)
likewebbrowsers use
toretrievewebpages andtosenddatatoremoteservers.

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HTTP TO CRUD
CREATE data: POST
READ data: GET
UPDATE data: PUT
DELETE data: DELETE

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LEARN JAVASCRIPT
DEEPLY, YOU MUST
‑ Yoda.
or was it Matt ?

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YOU DON'T LEARN TO WALK BY
FOLLOWING RULES. YOU LEARN BY
DOING, AND BY FALLING OVER.
‑ Richard Branson

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JAVASCRIPTISSEXY.COM

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MVC
Model‑ View ‑ Controller

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DEMO TIME
frontendmanagement viaAJAX
Angular 1 WIP
Angular 2 REST API POC

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this is astart, obviously
different paradigm,
different mindset,
different useage,
different tooling

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USEFUL RESOURCES
GOOGLE.COM: HOWTO LEARN JAVASCRIPT

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USEFUL RESOURCES
JoshPollock
Roy Sivan
Wes Bos
ToddMotto
JohnPapa
Mat Marquis ‑ JavaScript for Webdesigners
WP‑API (v2)
Egghead.io(JS tuts)

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WANNA TALK ? HIT ME UP LATER
www.tomhermans.com
@tomhermans