Posts with keyword: apis

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Pico Programming Lesson: Modules and External APIs

Tue Apr 18 13:39:00 2017

A new pico lesson is available that shows how to use user-defined actions in modules to wrap an API.
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Notes from Gluecon 2016

Wed May 25 17:45:00 2016

Here are notes I live tweeted at Gluecon 2016.
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The BYU University API committee has been looking for a good project to jumpstart our efforts in personal APIs. The BYU Domains project is not only providing the means to host the personal API, but the initial project as well.
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Personal APIs in a University Setting

Thu May 5 20:38:00 2016

This is the abstract from my proposal to speak at APIStrat 2016.
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Resources, Not Data

Fri Aug 21 14:26:00 2015

We need to stop trying to understand REST in terms of data-centric programming paradigms. The result will be better-designed APIs.
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The Core of Your API

Tue Dec 23 16:12:00 2014

A university is a complex place with lots of constituencies. What does it mean to design a University API given the different focus that each constituency has?
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When Services Die

Mon Dec 10 10:00:00 2012

What happens when your favorite service dies? Will your data live on? Not if you're dependent on cloud-based services you don't control.
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Clean Sheets and APIs

Wed Mar 23 12:57:00 2011

David Barrett of Expensify just led a session at Kynetx Impact on APIs. His talk was listed as "When APIs go bad. APIs are powerful, but when should you consider not providing an API for your data." He followed Sam Ramji who gave an updated version of his Darwin's Finches talk. The updates are recorded in two recent articles The Building Blocks for a Successful API Strategy and With APIs It's Caveat Structor - Developer Beware. Consequently there was some good discussion and interaction from the audience. David's main point is that building an API isn't free and for
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Clay Loveless: Understanding API Usage

Thu Nov 18 16:30:00 2010

I was in a Point-of-View session at Defrag with Laura Merling of Alcatel-Lucent, Brian Mulloy of Apigee, and Clay Loveless of Mashery. Laura and Brian gave interesting talks, but since they went before me, I was too occupied to take notes. I did take notes for Clay's talk, however, since he went after me. :-) Clay gave six tips for making an API work: Test it all. Unit tests are just the beginning, but if you don't have them yet, don't start there. Instead, test what your user's experience with end-to-end black box tests. Replaying your access logs is
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Events, Webhooks, and the Realtime Web: Kynetx Dev Days

Thu Oct 21 08:07:00 2010

At Kynetx we're very bullish on the real-time Web. There are several trends that are leading us inexorably toward better use of real-time data including webhooks, Restful APIs, streaming data from sources like Twitter and Facebook, and Internet identity protocols like OAuth. At Kynetx, we use the term "event-driven" to descibe systems and architectures that make use of these ideas. Kynetx is a system for building event-driven applications that make use of webhooks, APIs, stream data, and user-centric identity. As I said in my post on Static Queries, Dynamic Data: Enabling the Real Time Web, In a traditional database,
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