Solving Dropbox’s URL Problems
April 10, 2015 No Comments
A recent post on the Dropbox developer’s blog post talked about the challenges of constructing URLs due to the challenges of encoding parameters. They proposed the idea
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Are You Or Your Customers Leaking Your API Keys?
March 23, 2015 No Comments
Several months ago I wrote a post called Where, oh where, does the API key go? I encouraged API providers to allow consumers to put the
Share Your Code, Not Your API Keys
March 20, 2015 No Comments
Part of my role at Runscope involves me writing OSS libraries or sample projects to share with other developers. I also regularly use 3rd party APIs in
API Design Notes: Smart Paging
March 20, 2015 No Comments
If you spend any time reading about API design or working with APIs you will likely have come across the notion of paging response data.
Don’t Design A Query String You Will One Day Regret
February 18, 2015 No Comments
When writing the Web API book, we decided that there was no way we would ever finish if we tried to address every conceivable issue. So
Hypermedia, past, present and future
January 22, 2015 No Comments
Hypermedia is not a new concept, it has been around in various forms since the 1960s. However, in the past seven years there has been
