Using multiple APIs made easy with YQL – Christian Heilmann

In this talk Chris Heilmann will show you how you can use YQL as a shortcut to spend your 24 hours concentrating on your hack rather than getting frustrated ploughing through API documentation. YQL is a meta-API that gives you a SQL-style interface to web services and web content. If “get stuff, otherstuff from API where thing is something and another thing is something else” sounds like a good idea to you, come along!

Christian Heilmann

Christian Heilmann is a geek and hacker by heart. He’s been a professional web developer for about eleven years and worked his way through several agencies up to Yahoo! where he delivered Yahoo! Maps Europe and Yahoo! Answers.

He has written two and contributed to three books on JavaScript, web development and accessibility,  led distributed teams as a manager and made them work with one another and released dozens of online articles and hundreds of blog posts in the last few years.

He’s been nominated standards champion of the year 2008 by .net magazine in the UK and currently sports the fashionable job title “International Developer Evangelist” spending his time going from conference to conference and university to university to speak and train people on systems provided by Yahoo! and other web companies that want to make this web thing work well for everybody.