He is a member of the AtomPub Workgroup, editor of the Atom Publishing Protocol, co-author of the URI Templates spec, and has a deep interest in web technologies, writing “The RESTFul Web” column for the online O’Reilly publication XML.com, writing the first desktop aggregator written in C#, and publishing various Python modules to help in putting together RESTful web services such as mimeparse, httplib2, and the google-api-python-client. He’s interested in REST, web services, Python, APIs, URI Templates, Atom Publishing Protocol, Big Data, or any linear combination of such.