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40 useful APIs for web designers and developers

An application programming interface (API) is a set of rules and specifications that software programs can follow to communicate or ‘interface’ with each other. As developers are well aware, there are hundreds of APIs out there for doing almost anything you could imagine online. Some are better than others, and some are definitely more useful [...]

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July 22, 2011 at 11:01 am Comments (0)

Documentation-Driven Design for APIs

Frances Berriman puts the sled firmly behind the reindeer with her approach to documenting feature-rich APIs. Creating good documentation needn’t be a chore and it reaps benefits – you wouldn’t expect presents at Christmas without writing your list to Santa first, would you?

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December 11, 2010 at 12:00 am Comments (0)