web services

Guys,

Scott Nelson (snelson) included me as one of the maintainers last friday and im glad to announce a new version of Services module for D6 (in fact, i released 2 versions today). The 6.x 0.11 contains several bugs fixed, a new security fix and some nice and long waited features:
* user.get service
* user.save service
* user.delete service
* file.get service
* file.getNodeFiles service
* menu.get service
* Several services were renamed for consistency, including node.load service to node.get
* node and user services now have a very granular permissions

Just thought I'd let everyone know I've started the Python Services API project, which provides a set of classes and and tests that Python developers can use as a basis for integration with the Services module. It's fairly bare-bones at the moment, and I'm by no means and expert Python developer, so feedback and contributions are more than welcome.

Just a quick note that nedjo posted a note about Services module going into core. This would allow use of XML-RPC, JSON, RSS, REST, SOAP and more to be loaded through a common Services API.

A Code Sprint will take place in Boston this coming Friday that will focus on the inclusion of this new Services API.

In Drupal 5: My C# application can access my drupal service al. la. Rob's great video. I turn on the session ids for the service, and call the system.connect service to get a sessionID, which I then pass around as the extra parameter in each of my service calls. I authenticate my user, but cannot persist the session state...

Trellon is announcing multiple vacancies, effective immediately. Please send resumes including cover letters and salary requirements to jobs@trellon.com. No phone calls please.

Position Title: Technical Lead
Reports To: Director of Development
Term: Permanent, Full Time
Classification: Professional, technical
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There's growing interest in the Drupal community in the prospect of renewing our core data handling APIs. Doing so will increase consistency and efficiency and ease barriers. It will also be a key step in enabling transactional web services.

In Drupal 6 we took some impressive first steps. What should we tackle for Drupal 7?

The attached paper, written by Nedjo Rogers and Henrique Recidive and sponsored by CivicSpace, aims to carry this discussion forward and map out both some conceptual space and concrete development tasks.

I'd like to give anyone interested the opportunity to respond to an RFP that my current employer, Medem, is sending out. If you choose to respond the responses are due by May 31st, 2007.

The PDF is attached, but a short extract is below.

About Medem
Medem, Inc. is the leading provider of products and services to the Healthcare industry.