api

How to extend a website?

This is quite a concept idea. I would like to create a website that can be extend by different programmer a bit "a la facebook" Let's me explain i want to develop a very simple core application that for example would store images and i want to develop or allow external developer to develop web app that would be able to act on the image i...

Unable to register "ChilkatMail_v7_9.dll" Version 7.9.2.0 with installer.

Hi, I am using "ChilkatMail_v7_9.dll" Version 7.9.2.0 for creating EML file in C#. Using Inno Setup Version 5.2.3.I am selecting Reg Type library option while creating installer. Bit still unable to register this dll. Is it because of virus? Thanx ...

Google Maps API v3 - How to clear overlays ?

Hello, In Google Maps API v2, I was using map.clearOverlays() to remove the marker and draw them again. How can I do that using Google Maps API v3 ? Thanks ...

REST API Help in Rails

Hi Everyone, I am trying to get some information posted using our accountancy package (FreeAgentCentral) using their API via a GEM. http://github.com/aaronrussell/freeagent_api/ I have the following code to get it working (supposedly): Kase Controller def create @kase = Kase.new(params[:kase]) @company = Company.find(para...

Unserializing an API return object (PHP/Ebay API)

I have been working with the Ebay api for a project and have found it great. I have however found a problem now, more PHP related. When I read my items from Ebay, I store a bunch of details in the database. Currently, just for the sake of it really, I serialize the whole return object and store it in the database in a related table. Th...

Which is the best Java library to generate KML ?

I am looking for a Java library to produce data in KML format. Is JAK the best option ? ...

Can twitter do callbacks?

Hi! I am wondering if the twitter API supports the following: Whenever I make a post to my twitter account - it also calls a specific URL which I define so I can do something else? Thanks very much, Andy ...

Displaying fancy routes in cloudmade based service

I look for a way to display a route in a fancy way using the Cloudmade service. Currently, I can see computed routes like on this tutorial http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/web-maps-lite/examples/routing, but I look for a fancier way to do it -- without A and B tags, and with colors, etc. Is this possible ? Thanks for your hel...

JavaScript Camera API Android (Froyo)

I am trying to access the JavaScript Camera API via the Android browser as demo'd at Google IO on Froyo (yes, I have Froyo on my Nexus1). Since there is no documentation, I am going by the W3C specs. But, I am unable to access the navigator.device object and unable to access navigator.camera either - both return undefined. Can anyone ...

How can I use Amazon's API in PHP to search for books?

I'm working on a Facebook app for book sharing, reviewing, and recommendations. I've scoured the web, searched Google using every search phrase I could think of, but I could not find any tutorials on how to access the Amazon.com API for book information. I signed up for an AWS account, but even the tutorials on their website didn't help...

difference between SPI and API?

What is the difference between Service Provider Interface (SPI) and Application Programming Interface (API)? More specifically, for Java libraries, what makes them an API and/or SPI? ...

How to do steps of an API through CLI/ batch mode without GUI

I'm using Audiveris API to generate xml(MusicXML) file once the sheetmusic(e.g. pdf/img file) is being input (i.e. When I give the sheet music (pdf file) location, to generate the xml file out of it (in another location)). Audiveris has its own GUI to do this. But can I do this process of sheetmusic-to-xml without using their GUI, but ...

Free (as in beer) Reverse Image Search API/Library/Service

TinEye provides a great way to "reverse" search by image (i.e. upload/transload an image and have multiple possible sources of that image returned as results.) Since screen-scraping is messy and unreliable, I'm looking for a free API/library/web-service that could offer the same (or similar) reverse-image search function. At present,...

TFS build monitor on Mac

I'm planning to create TFS build monitor for Mac on my spare time, are there any TFS libraries available for objective-c or I should use TFS web-services to fetch the information? ...

Provisioning Api using Java

Hello I tried one application which is used to store First 100 users in my domain to the table using JPA.But its returning Server Error. Pealse Help me. This is the code i tried.. public class AppsProvisioning { public String m[]=new String[1000]; public int a; final EntityManager em = EMFService.get().createEntityMa...

Facebook Graph API - likes returns me an empty set...

When I try to get all my "likes" (formerly fan pages) on Facebook Graph API, sometimes it returns me an empty set: { "data": [ ] } I tried with https://graph.facebook.com/me/likes?access_token=MY_ACCESS_TOKEN and with graph.facebook.com/vinch/likes?access_token=MY_ACCESS_TOKEN but the result is exactly the same (empty). Any id...

Get Flickr Sets

Hi everyone. Usual stuff, Googled forever, looked on here, no help. Yet. What I want is to list the sets of photos I have on Flickr. Nice & simple, it would seem. I want the 'title image' (the one used as the thumb for it on Flickr its self), the title and URL. Can't be that hard, can it? The language of choice is PHP (5.1.6), or JS (...

How to learn open source library API without good documentation

I am recently working on the open source library openmetaverse which is designed as an open source substitution of second life viewer. I think the problem is that it is not well documented. Sometimes, I just misunderstand the API when I really used it in real program which is very annoying because sometimes you need to write many code. B...

how use Oauth on a desktop application

The long QUEST to get an access token app gets a request token from twitter user clicks a button on the ap app opens a twitter page, user types username/password twitter gives user a PIN user use this PIN in the application GREAT, finally app exchange the request token for an access token Questions: This token belongs to who? I mea...

A scheme for expiring downloaded content?

I am going to offer a web API service that allows users to download and "rent" content for a monthly subscription fee. The API will either be open to everyone or possibly just select parties (not sure yet). Each developer must agree to a license, and they receive a developer key for their person. Each software application will have its o...