After discovering what is the OpenAPI Specification format, it’s now time to write a first simple OpenAPI Specification file to learn the basics.

Previously in the APIverse…
Since I started my Swagger journey, there have been some changes. The Swagger Specification has been donated to the newly created OpenAPI Initiative under the Linux foundation and is reborn as the OpenAPI Specification. Therefore, my Swagger Journey will become an OpenAPI Specification (fka Swagger Specification) Journey.

Jennifer Riggins wrote a blog post about my Document-API-topia talk, you can read the Utopia of API documentation on Smartbear blog.

API Days Paris just finished this Thursday, leaving me both sad and exhausted and happy and full of energy.

Sad and exhausted because this awesome and intense API conference is over.
Happy and full of energy because this awesome and intense API conference exists.

When watching a movie, have you ever noticed how characters interact with computers? If someone wants to destroy a computer, what does he or she smash?
The computer’s screen…

I’ve been interviewed by Lexy Mayko from API2Cart, you can read the interview here.

If you want to know why an existing IS is not a good API, you should read my last post on Nordic APIs blog How to Provide APIs With an Existing Information System.

My other self Arnaud Lauret writes about APIs too. This week you can read Should Every Company Consider Providing an API? on Nordic APIs blog.

A few weeks ago I’ve seen an interesting flock of tweets initiated by this question:

This question and the tweets that followed put my brain on quite an animated discussion…

When I look at hypermedia media-types and API definition languages I feel that the frontier between data and documentation is becoming thinner as my knowledge of the API world grows and as the API world evolves.