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technickle/open311georeport · GitHub

github.com on 05/07/2013

Excerpt: The Open311 entity models are inconsistent between XML and JSON, especially when it comes to arrays. So the present output works well for JSON but the XML output is not 100% compliant. There isn't really a way to fix this with the default implementation of easyXML. Ideally the code should be refactored to work more asynchronously, e. g. start the output while continuing to process input from Socrata.... read the full post.
Tags: City Government, open311, Tools

desktoppr/wbench · GitHub

github.com on 05/06/2013

Excerpt: WBench is a tool that uses the HTML5 performance timing API to benchmark end user load times for websites. It simulates users visiting your website for the first time, with nothing of your site cached. Installation You can install the latest stable gem by running: $ gem install wbench If you're running an older version (1. 8) of ruby, you'll need the JSON gem. $ gem install json You will need to install Google Chrome as well as the chromedriver utility. You can install chromedriver (on OSX) with homebrew: Alternatively you can install firefox and use it with wbench. See Running other browsers for more info. Usage Command Line Simply enter the URL of a website you want to benchmark.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, HTML5, Tools, webperf

Panic Status Board

panic.com on 04/09/2013

Excerpt: Status Board takes your data and gives it meaning. Use the easy built-in panels. Or massage your data for our Graph and Table panels. It's going to be awesome. Status at hand. And, with fullscreen HDTV out (in-app purchase required): On a TV with HDMI out. Or stream using AirPlay. ? Questions about Status Board? Help is available right here! Can I do AirPlay mirroring? Yes! But it's more than mirroring: our in-app purchase enables a second screen specifically formatted for HDTV aspect ratios to eliminate AirPlay letterboxing! Your Status Board will be reformatted to look its best. That said, we plan to add basic free AirPlay mirroring (non-fullscreen) in a future build.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Tools

Studio Sketchpad

sketchpad.cc on 04/07/2013

Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, apitools, Story, Tools

NREL/api-umbrella · GitHub

github.com on 04/05/2013

Excerpt: Make life easier for API creators: Allow API creators to focus on building APIs. Standardize the boring stuff: APIs can assume the boring stuff (access control, rate limiting, analytics, etc. ) is already taken care if the API is being accessed, so common functionality doesn't need to be implemented in the API code. Easy to add: API Umbrella acts as a layer above your APIs, so your API code doesn't need to be modified to take advantage of the features provided. Scalability: Make it easier to scale your APIs. Make life easier for API consumers: Let API consumers easily explore and use your APIs. Unify disparate APIs: Present separate APIs as a cohesive offering to API consumers.... read the full post.
Tags: API Management, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, apitools, Federal Government, Tools

stripe/poncho · GitHub

github.com on 04/03/2013

Excerpt: class ChargeResource < Poncho : :Resource param :amount , :type => :integer param :currency def currency super| 'USD' end end class ChargeCreateMethod < Poncho : :JSONMethod param :amount , :type => :integer , :required => true param :currency , :in => [ 'USD' , 'GBP' ] def invoke charge = Charge. new charge. amount = param ( :amount ) charge. currency = param ( :currency ) charge. save ChargeResource. new ( charge ) end end post '/charges' , & ChargeCreateMethod Getting started with Methods Methods inherit from Poncho::Method and override invoke , where they perform any necessary logic. In a similar vein to Sinatra, anything returned from invoke is sent right back to the user.... read the full post.
Tags: API Management, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Frameworks, Payments, REST, Tools

I/O Doctor - GUI for I/O Docs configurations

iodoctor.net on 03/30/2013

Excerpt: Upload an existing config, or create a new config and start adding Endpoints, Methods, and Parameters. When an existing config is used, it is parsed and forms for editing each Endpoint, Method, and Parameter will be created. Click an item from the menu on the left to begin editing. View the JSON output at any time by hitting the "output" tab. When finished, click "Save File" to download the JSON file. I/O Doctor does not store any data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, I/O Docs, Story, Tools

fragment.js

danielrapp.github.com on 03/24/2013

Excerpt: attribute. Mustache, Handlebars and Underscore are supported by default and will automatically be used if they're available in the global scope. But you can just override the window. fragment. render function if you want to use something else. This is {{adjective}}! If the element already has an innerHTML, you only use the data-fragment attribute, and don't provide a custom renderer; fragment. js will attempt to render Mustache, Handlebars then Underscore with the innerHTML as input. If the window hostname isn't the same as the json url hostname, it'll try to use jsonp.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Embeddable, Tools

Tools of the trade

blog.scraperwiki.com on 03/14/2013

Excerpt: With the experience of a whole week of ScraperWiki, I am starting to appreciate the core tools of the professional Data Scientist. In the past I’ve written scrapers in Matlab, C# and Python. However, the house language for scraping at ScraperWiki is Python. It’s a good choice: a mature but modern language with a wide range of useful, easy to install libraries. As an interpreted language, it is easy to use in a very fast development cycle. There are a number of libraries which are core to the scraping process: Requests is an HTTP library for reading web pages. It has a rather cleaner syntax than the standard urllib2 and has useful plugins such as requests_cache which gives you dead simple web page caching.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Harvesting, Scraping, Tools