Joe is the editor of the Atom Publishing Protocol and the coauthor of the URI Templates spec. He has a deep interest in web technologies. He wrote The RESTFul Web column for the online O’Reilly publication XML.com, wrote the first desktop aggregator written in C#, and has published various Python modules to help in putting together RESTful web services such as mimeparse, httplib2, and the google-api-python-client. Joe is interested in Go, Polymer, Web Components, REST, web services, APIs, URI templates, the Atom Publishing Protocol, big data, and any linear combination of such.