Based in part on over 3,000 newsgroup articles written by Python veteran Fredrik Lundh since 1995, this book provides brief descriptions and sample scripts for all standard modules in the Python 2.0 library.
In this post we cover best practices for writing Node.js RESTful APIs - including route naming, authentication, API testing or using proper cache headers.
10 Great Implementations of Facebook Connect January 12, 2009 - 9:39 am PDT - by Ben Parr Facebook Connect mania has swept the Internet! Why create an account on a random website when you can click a single button to join? That is the power of Facebook Connect, which allows websites, software, and even mobile devices to integrate with Facebook and send information both ways. The last few months have been very busy ones for developers as they furiously integrated their websites with Facebook Connect. But a few implementations have stood out against the rest. Some are on this list because of the seamlessness of their integration, while others for their usefulness.
This is a list of 10 best practices that are more subtle than your average Josh Bloch Effective Java rule. While Josh Bloch's list is very easy to learn and concerns everyday situations, this list here contains less common situations involving API / SPI design that may have a big effect nontheless. I have encountered…
The 30 Boxes API is open for non-commercial application development. Remember we are still in beta; we will change, update, and add methods as we recieve your feedback! More to come soon...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read their latest case study: A Canadian Printer Leaves its Servers in Illinois. Thumbnail image for Cirrus_clouds2.jpgIn our last post on data journalism, we ran across a number of tools that would be helpful for anyone who is interested in how to make sense of data. The tools represent a renaissance in how we make sense of our information culture. They provide context and meaning to the often baffling world of big data. This is a snapshot of what is available. We are relying on the work done by Paul Bradshaw, whose blog is an excellent source about the new world of data journalism.
J. Euzenat. Proceedings of the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), volume 3298 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 698--712. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, (November 2004)