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Designing an API with compile-time option to remove first parameter to most functions and use a global.

I'm trying to design a portable API in ANSI C89/ISO C90 to access a wireless networking device on a serial interface. The library will have multiple network layers, and various versions need to run on embedded devices as small as an 8-bit micro with 32K of code and 2K of data, on up to embedded devices with a megabyte or more of code an...

Free Weather API for Company Websites.

I am looking for a Weather API Provider for a company web site that is free of charge. Google API is unofficial, Yahoo and Wetter.com are for personal Websites only, so they don't fit my needs. ...

Use GAE remote api with local (dev) installation

Has anyone find to use the GAE remote api but instead of connecting to AppEngine to connect to localhost? For dev purposes of course ...

Gmail plugin API/development

Hi, I'd love to write a plugin to monitor my Spam folder in Gmail, and perform various functions (like delete anything with the word Pfizer in it!). I have a bunch of other ideas too for our Google Apps domain. So, is there a Gmail API? Ideally I'd have a web service could connect to my Gmail server, with the correct authentication, a...

Store username and password persistent in windows mobile(6.0) app

Hi I need some help developing my mobile app. I have to store user data permant (name, password), so what is the best way to do that? I dont know a special API for it, so where to store persistent data's on a windows phone? Maybe in the win mobile registry or inside a file? Or should I use a light database? Someone has experience with...

Flicker API issues, set_id

Hi! Can somebody suggest me , why set_id doesn't work properly for Flicker API object call. IN slideshow it works very well, it selects just images from this set http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?group_id=&user_id=26339121@N07&set_id=72157623827367793&tags=Cars,Lotus,Exige but when I tru to use this one : http...

Is it possible to expose an API for my own WebSite ... but use oAuth for the api authentication?

Hi Folks, currently I expose an Api for my website. Works great .. and i use Basic Authentication to authenticate users to get access to the data. eg. http://www.MyWebSite.com <-- main site. http://api.MyWebSite.com <-- my api website. sample api RESTful url http://user1:[email protected]/games?type=battlefield2 (yes yes...

APIs to download songs from iTunes to iPhone

Hi all i am writing one iphone application to download the songs and store it in my application. Is there any framework for this?. Can you please help me how to get started with it. Thanks in advance. ...

Calling Facebook API without authenticating user/"connecting"

Hi, I am working with facebook's API and I want to call the links.prevew method. http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Links.preview Is it possible to call this method without having my user authenticate or "connect"? For example, not all of my users have hooked up their facebook accounts to my website, but I still want to use...

Is There any API in windows to detect whether the disk situation is changed?

I am writting a application to detect the change of system disks. for example, if user insert a disk, the application can detect this event. If user change the volume label, I can receive the message. Is there any APIs to detect this kind of event? Many Thanks! ...

String date time format

I am using the Vimeo API and I want to convert the string <upload_date> to a short date format, {0:d} or {0:dd/mm/yyyy}. This is my code but it doesn't seem to be working for me. select new VimeoVideo { Date = String.Format("{0:d}",(item.Element("upload_date").Value)), }; return Vids....

Virtualization of Legacy API and co-existence with more modern API?

I don't mean for this question to be a flame bait but I'll be using Microsoft and their win32 API as a example of a legacy API. Now what I am wondering here is Microsoft is spending a lots of their money and energy in maintaining their legacy API, including all of the "glitches/bugs/workaround" that are needed to keep the API functionin...

Most awkward/misleading method in the .Net API?

In light of this question I thought it'd be really neat to have a similar question about C#/.Net. So, what is the most awkward or misleading method name of the .Net and/or C# API? ...

How to pass UTF8 string into your PHP HTML API?

so I have my php API (html Get api for Flash builder and C# apps). So if you want to submit data to it you use string like http://localhost/cms/api.php?method=someMethod&amp;string=Your_String If there are english letters in it its ok. But what if I need to pass UTF-8 string like this &#1056;&#1091;&#1089;&#1089;&#1082;&#1086;&#1077; &...

Facebook Graph - does the user "like" my page?

I am trying to upgrade my iPhone app to use the new facebook graph api. One thing I cannot find is how to find out if the current user connected from my app to facebook is a fan of my facebook page - (i.e. in the new paradigm - whether the user likes my page) In the Rest Api there was a function isFan, but not in the Graph. I can get ...

Adobe Acrobat API - How to skip opening password protected PDFs?

Hi all, I've been using Delphi and the Adobe Acrobat 9 API. I'm simply opening a PDF and printing it, followed by closing it without saving anything. I'm having an issue while opening some PDFs though. If the PDF is password protected the Open method displays Adobe's "Input password" prompt. My application is running in an automated fa...

How to create simpliest PHP Get API with UTF-8 support?

How to create simpliest *(less lines of code, less strange words) PHP Get API *(so any programm made in .Net C# could call url like http://localhost/api.php?astring=your_utf-8_string&amp;bstring=your_utf-8_string ) with UTF-8 support? What I need Is PHP API with one function - concatinate 2 strings so that a simple .net client like thi...

Google Maps custom marker - can the iframe accept one like the static maps?

I was reading the static maps API, and it says you can include a custom marker in the GET params. You simply link to an image file. I now have a second Google Map within an iframe, and was wondering if you can attach custom markers via the GET params to it? Here is the src attribute of the iframe currently. http://maps.google.com/maps?...

Is there are any api's available to MMS through any application of iPhone

I am designing iPhone application project. In that I need to send MMS through that application.Is there are available api's to create MMS and send it like an email? ...

Need a TV/Movie API with associated trailers

Looking for a movie/TV API that offers previews (trailers), via widgets or links, as well. I know IMDB has an API, but it only has metadata. Internet Video Archive also has an API, but, well, lets just say they seem a bit incompetent. I could use YouTube, but I'd get a lot of cruft and unofficial results. Anyone else have any ideas? ...