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API For Flex Apps To Interact

I have a large flex application (the app) running on one server, and many small flex applications (widgets) running on another server, which are to be included in the app so that visually the user see's one continuous application. Due to proprietary third party software, this structure cannot be changed. I am looking for some way to al...

Twitter rss feed 401 - unauthorisation

Hey. I have a public twitter account and this is the rss feed for it: http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/150784631.rss The problem is, im getting an http 401 whenever im trying to access it. Can anybody explain how to stop this - and get it to work either with authentication or without! Cheers ...

Slideshare , API feed for javascript , jquery ...

Hi everybody, Can you help me with some information, to make it faster ? Can I use API feed from slideshare with JavaScript (jquery) ? Here, http://www.slideshare.net/developers/documentation I see just "Response XML Format" don't see any Json Response. Can somebody help me with that, some helpful links, or some suggestions, how ca...

jquery ajax vs browser url

Hello all, I'm trying to use youtube's api to bring back a listing of a user's videos. The request url looks something like: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/username/uploads with 'username' being the correct username. This bring back the appropriate url in the browser. However when I try to access that url via jQuery's $...

.NET Reflection Helper API?

When using reflection we typically just was the basic System.Reflection API but I am wondering if anyone know of a nice "wrapper" layer or API that has a more "schema style" approach? (e.g. kind of like a code generators DB schema view) This is for use in code generators, like T4 templates etc... ...

How do you prevent brute force attacks on RESTful data services

Hi, I'm about to implement an RESTful API to our website (based on WCF data services, but that probably does not matter). All data offered via this API belongs to certain users of my server, so I need to make sure only those users have access to my resources. For this reason, all requests have to be performed with a login/password com...

Building a service for a Drupal site to duplicate a node to another Drupal site in a multi-site setup

I'm trying to set up one of my Drupal sites to push a node to another Drupal site in a multi-site configuration. It looks like I need to do this with services somehow, but I can't find any tutorials out there and I need at least to be pointed in the right direction. What I believe I need is set up Services on the receiving site to accept...

i am using Google map API in my webpage. i need to specify my place using my image how to do this?

i am using Google map API in my webpage. i need to specify my place using my own image. how to do this? ...

Rackwise API/SDK

I'm looking for information regarding Rackwise's API/SDK? Has anyone worked with it? Can you tell me what classes are involved? ...

Twitter api - no more than 150 requests per hour....

Hi. I am writing a twitter app using jtwitter - and its running inside a server inside my work. Anyway - whenever i run it from work it returns the error below and I am only making a couple requests per hour: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request {"request":"/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=6&id=cicsdemo&","error":"Rate limit exceeded. Clients ...

importing contacts from emails like yahoo, MSN and AOL in .net

I have a asp.net website and i need to import address books from yahoo, msn and aol. I have already done gmail import by downloading the google contacts api. But i cannot find the same for yahoo,msn and aol. does anyone know if there's a single dll avilable that can do this? or any other way is fine. ...

How to determine the time span on map ?

How could I determine the time needed to go from one location to another ? Is there any map API (web services, servlets) that allows this ? ...

Custom Prints to Products API affiliate

Hi Everyone, I have been working on using cafepress API to create custom products with prints from a website. The problem is that cafepress documenation lacks and there is hardly any support for it. I was wondering if anyone else knew good APIs that are out there which allows RESTful API integration to create custom products and sell t...

Does anyone know if you can get an API Key for javascript at Google WITHOUT a current URL?

I'm developing a webapp/website on my local machine and won't know the url I'm using for it, but I'd like to use Google's hosted javascript APIs. Anyone know how I'd go about doing this? ...

CreatePatternBrush and screen color depth

I am creating a brush using CreatePatternBrush with a bitmap created with CreateBitmap. The bitmap is 1 pixel wide and 24 pixels tall, I have the RGB value for each pixel, so I create an array of rgbquads and pass that to CreateBitmap. This works fine when the screen color depth is 32bpp, since the bitmap I create is also 32bpp. When ...

Youtube PHP API - How do I add a specific video to a specific playlist using the PlaylistID

I'm trying to set up a quick PHP demo using the Youtube API that adds a video (using its ID) to a pre-created playlist (using its ID as well). The documentation for the PHP API doesn't specify how to do this. I'm referring to this documentation: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_php.html#Adding_a_Playlist_Video Do...

How to access youtube data api json response $t variable in php?

I'm getting a JSON response from the YouTube Data API. Here is a sample response of the Title variable: stdClass Object ( [$t] => Video Title ) How do I access the $t variable? $blah->$t won't work because it looks for a variable by $t, and not a member of $blah with name $t. ...

Facebook REST api Application Secret

I'm trying to retrieve a list of my friends' birthdays using the following code. I'm using Facebook's FQL method using the old REST API. <?php $appapikey = '<app api key>'; $appsecret = '<app secret>'; $token = 'access_token=<token>'; $fql = "SELECT uid, first_name, last_name, birthday, sex, proxied_email FROM standard_user_in...

Is there an API that I can use to get historical and recent EOD stock quotes?

Hey I just need the link for the API that Google/Yahoo have (I know they have it but I cant find the link) that I can use to get historical and recent End of day stock quotes. For example I want to be able to query the quote for MSFT on Jan 15,2009 and get the moving averages and 52 week highs, etc. Can anyone point them out to me? Thank...

Building a C# / ASP.NET API using oAuth for API Authentication

Does anyone have any examples or advice for how to go about using oAuth to provide the authentication mechanism for an API that should be publicly exposed? Specifically I'm talking about being an oAuth provider for my own API, not integrating or authenticating with anyone else's API. For example, I wish to be able to issue API keys to...