I gave a presentation last night with Skills Matter in London. This presentation goes beyond the basic statistics of BOSS and shows how a fictional Trainspotter uses BOSS to build his ultimate trainspotting enthusiast web site.

Skills Matter is a great organization that provides daily classes about open source and agile work techniques. They also provide courses around Europe in various programming languages and techniques. Check out Skills Matter’s schedules to see if an event is coming to your area.

I will be following up with another post about some of the conversations from this event.

You’ll see example BOSS requests at the end of the slideshow. Simply replace the fictional tomstrains.com urls and your application id to see the resulting xml.

I’ve updated the code samples and provided a text version of the code to download. I’ve used this on several sites and it is very easy to use.