DrupalCon Portland 2013: SAAS, DRUPAL SERVICES AND OAUTH
"Software as a Service" (SaaS), is still not famous but very powerful feature of Services module for Drupal 7, and a key component of the revolutionary Drupal 8 core.
In this session you will:
– Be advised on why SaaS is a profitable business
– Be warned that you might already have a "gold mine" ready to be harvested
– Learn several key concepts of SaaS: "endpoint", "consumers", "REST" and "2-legged OAuth"
– Learn the difference between secure authentication(OAuth) and secure data transfer(HTTPS)
– Learn tips to design lightweight and intuitive Web services and why you should care about that
– Be guided step by step on how to configure a SaaS server on Drupal 7
– Learn how to use JSON to turn your Drupal site into a data storage (and perhaps a big one)
And… as a Bonus(if demo goes smoothly)… will show you how to "feed" and/or "consume" your new "little SaaS monster" using Guzzle PHP library (included in Drupal 8 core). In short, how to make Drupal 7 and 8 talk in JSON language.
I found this presentation rather shallow technically and he used a lot of words and time to say very little. This topic needs coverage in more depth.
Thanks for your feedback Jim! I did my best to balance the technical speaking while trying to influence the attendees to adopt OAuth. It looks like I left you with the feeling of “want more!”, that is great! so you can document your self on the field now that you know the power of OAuth. Just like @rj did: https://drupal.org/node/2036017