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Tag Archives: apis
June 18, 2019
November 3, 2015
REST API merged into WordPress core
As mentioned in the merge proposal, the API comes in two parts: infrastructure and endpoints. In 4.4, the infrastructure is now available as part of core, while the endpoints continue to only be available in the plugin.
You can think of the infrastructure as an “API construction kit”. WordPress 4.4 will make it possible for everyone to build RESTful APIs in a much easier fashion, which will benefit people building custom APIs for their site. The infrastructure handles the routing, argument handling, JSON serialisation/deserialisation, status codes, and all that other lovely REST stuff.
This is a big deal.
June 17, 2015
Paw
Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server’s response and even generate client code.
Request generation, formatters, extensions, authentication support, parametrisation and more. $29,99 + free trial.
February 19, 2014
Just wrote a quick and dirty Python script for searching ChemSpider from the command line.
March 1, 2013
The Little Manual of API Design (PDF)
This manual gathers together the key insights into API design that were discovered through many years of software development on the Qt application development framework at Trolltech (now part of Nokia). When designing and implementing a library, you should also keep other factors in mind, such as efficiency and ease of implementation, in addition to pure API considerations. And although the focus is on public APIs, there is no harm in applying the principles described here when writing application code or internal library code.
A useful reference.
August 31, 2012
It begins
As some of you may have already noticed the download link for the Tweetbot for Mac alpha no longer works. Twitter’s latest API Changes means now we have a large but finite limit on the number of user tokens we can get for Tweetbot for Mac. We’ve been working with Twitter over the last few days to try to work around this limit for the duration of the beta but have been unable to come up with a solution that was acceptable to them. Because of this we’ve decided its best for us to pull the alpha.