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
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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
Where, oh where, does the API key go?
December 17, 2014 No Comments
Yesterday on twitter I made a comment criticizing the practice of putting an API key in a query string parameter. I was surprised by the amount of
Constructing URLs the easy way
December 3, 2014 No Comments
When building client applications that need to connect to a HTTP API, sooner or later you are going to get involved in constructing a URL
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