REST API Design Rulebook - O'Reilly Media
shop.oreilly.com
on 04/26/2013
Excerpt: As mentioned by another review, REST is a convention, not a standardized protocol. You can design all kinds of crazy APIs with HTTP, things that are not RESTful at all, and not very clean or consistent. I've created web services without this book, and I've created web services that were informed by this book. I wish I'd read the book before I designed my first, because the web service APIs I created guided by the Rest API Design Rulebook are significantly better -- cleaner, more consistent, better use of HTTP methods and statuses, etc. I especially had problems understanding when to use PUT and when to use POST; the 'rulebook' approach of the text made that distinction clear.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Design, Book, O'Reilly
Appcelerator Titanium: Patterns & Best Practices
developer.appcelerator.com
on 03/28/2013
Excerpt: The following guest spot is courtesy of Trevor Ward (@thewarpedcoder) and Boydlee Pollentine (@boydleep), the authors of the new “Appcelerator Titanium: Patterns & Best Practices” book. Trevor and Boydlee are both active Titanium community members and Titans contributing across a wide-range of activities, including organizing Titanium conferences, speaking at mobile conferences, hosting Titanium trainings and helping out on the Q&A to name a few. It is nice to be asked by Appcelerator to contribute to their blog. Especially when you get the chance to promote a new book. Over the last few months Boydlee Pollentine and myself (Trevor Ward) have been working on providing a resource we hope will help people using Titanium.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Book, Mobile
A Publisher’s Job Is to Provide a Good API for Books
toc.oreilly.com
on 02/01/2013
Excerpt: Here is a radical statement: A publisher’s job is to provide good APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for their books. Now that almost all books are made into digital products (that is, ebooks), good publishers of the future will be the ones who provide great APIs. In this article I am going to explore:
why I think publishers must provide good APIs
why this is actually much easier and less scary than you might think
why the old-fashioned book index should be the starting point for book APIs
An API is a set of tools/protocols that allow different bits of software to communicate with each other, under defined conditions.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Book, Commentary, Googlereader, Ifttt, News, O'Reilly, Publishing, Story
Excerpt: The following guest spot is courtesy of Trevor Ward (@thewarpedcoder) and Boydlee Pollentine (@boydleep), the authors of the new “Appcelerator Titanium: Patterns & Best Practices” book. Trevor and Boydlee are both active Titanium community members and Titans contributing across a wide-range of activities, including organizing Titanium conferences, speaking at mobile conferences, hosting Titanium trainings and helping out on the Q&A to name a few. It is nice to be asked by Appcelerator to contribute to their blog. Especially when you get the chance to promote a new book. Over the last few months Boydlee Pollentine and myself (Trevor Ward) have been working on providing a resource we hope will help people using Titanium.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Book, Mobile
