Ben Longden 
@blongdenBen is a technical team lead at Ibuildings UK in Sheffield. He has over 8 years professional experience in a variety of programming languages including C, C++, Perl, Python and has been writing PHP code for the last 4 years. Throughout his career he has worked at a variety of places in different industries; mobile marketing, data, the ISP industry and in professional services all of which has given him diverse experience of software engineering in different fields.
Outside of work he is a father, and with what little spare time he has left he can be found hacking one of his own projects (lots of ideas, not enough time!) playing on his PS3, or infrequently blogging on techPortal and his own personal blog at nocarrier.co.uk.
REST and HATEOAS – A Case Study 
A RESTful API is only truly RESTful if it uses hypermedia to tell us about all the actions that can be performed on the curent resource, allowing us to traverse the API from a single entry point.
His session looks at REST and HATEOAS (Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State) to illustrate good service structure. Ben will use the RESTful file sharing service fdrop.it to illustrate the various examples of how this can be used.
This session is recommended for architects and senior developers alike and will give a good grounding in writing excellent, self-explanatory RESTful services.
http://blip.tv/phpnw/phpnw11-ben-longden-rest-and-hateoas-a-case-study-5858742
