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JTwitter OAuth signpost example

Hey. I believe JTwitter supports OAuth to authenticate against a developer account , however i cannot get any of them working. The JTwitter docs say signpost is the supported method - yet I cannot seem to find the OAuthSignpostClient class they use even after adding the signpost libs: OAuthSignpostClient client = new OAuthSignpostCl...

API for displaying graphs in a web app?

I have graphs (nodes/arcs) that I want to display to the user. I need to be able to capture the event of a user clicking on a node. Something like Google Charts API's Simple Org Chart would be great, but it looks like it only supports trees. I would like to use JavaScript. What other service/toolkit can I use? Or should I hack somethi...

Why doesn't the Java Collections API include a Graph implementation?

I’m currently learning the Java Collections API and feel I have a good understanding of the basics, but I’ve never understood why this standard API doesn’t include a Graph implementation. The three base classes are easily understandable (List, Set, and Map) and all their implementations in the API are mostly straightforward and consiste...

How do I begin with making a small cross-site AJAX script using someone's API?

Let's say I want to use this API: http://hiveminder.com/help/reference/API.html The instructions walk through its use via. the curl command line tool, which I'm unfamiliar with. I want to access this API through a simple script on my own page. What are the steps I need to do this? Keep in mind it's been years since I've done any of ...

understanding an API

I know that there are many API's like json,Facebook,twitter etc for developing related applications on iphone....but how to understand an API?This might be scilly question but I want to know how? what would you suggest for for a beginner? ...

API Wrapper Architecture Best Practice

Hi, I'm writing a Perl wrapper module around a REST webservice and I'm hoping to have some advice on how best to architect the module. I've been looking at a couple of different Perl modules for inspiration. Flickr::Simple2 is basically one big file with methods wrapping around the different methods in the Flickr API, e.g. getPhotos()...

Language Learning Application Flow

Hi, No, I'm not talking about learning programming language. I'm talking about application like Rosetta Stone or Babble. In both applications, we can find that in learning languages (well, in learning any topics perhaps), there are several components like presenting the lesson and generating questions (presenting quizes). I am wonderin...

Reverse Lookup API for iPhone?

Hi all, I am developing an iPhone application where i have to implement reverse lookup for phone numbers. Is there any free API available for this? ...

API verbs for an interruptible operation

I have a long running task as part of my application. The task can be started, paused, resumed, and cancelled. I'm trying to find the best interface for these operations. Two seem clear: Pause and Cancel. This leaves the start and resume operations. I could include both Start and Resume. This has the downside of either requiring the API...

Downloading/Generating the Flex 3 API spec.

I have a somewhat unstable internet connection. I'd like to have the Flex 3 API on my local system for internet down times, but I cant find where it's available for download, or how to generate it. Does anyone have a link to a downloadable API spec or have instruction on how to generate it. Thanks ...

Is it possible to generate custom bit.ly URLs through their API?

I would like to be able to generate custom bit.lys (http://bit.ly/thecakeisalie type things) through their API. This does not appear to be possible, but I thought I'd check; does anyone happen to know otherwise? ...

public api for nearby businesses

Hello, I'm looking for an api to give me nearby businesses and venues based on a lat / long + radius. I was looking at the foursquare api, which serves part of that: it gives venues based on a lat and long but not radius. Does anyone know of any alternatives? Does google have something that does this? Thanks and any help is apprecia...

Custom API requirement

We are currently working on an API for an existing system. It basically wraps some web-requests as an easy-to-use library that 3rd party companies should be able to use with our product. As part of the API, there is an event mechanism where the server can call back to the client via a constantly-running socket connection. To minimize ...

Ruby library for Flickr API?

Is there a solid, production ready library in Ruby that interacts with the Flickr API? I found a few by googing, but their states don't impress me much. I'm looking for something along the lines of flickrapi for Python, with nice documentation. ...

Post from RSS to Blogger

Hi, I have created a blog at Blogger, say xyz.blogspot.com. What I need is to post new entries in my blog whenever there is any new entry in a RSS Feed say: http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=en_pk&hl=en&q=silicon+valley&cf=all&output=rss I have tried using www.xfruits.com, but its throwing error "wrong...

Resharper API development - Find Incoming calls

I am trying to make a program which will utilize resharper's "find incoming calls" feature. This is not a resharper plugin, but rather a console app (or similar) which finds the incoming calls to all properties on several particular types in my code. I have been searching the web for quite some time to find this, and have come up with n...

API not accepting SOAP requests

Hi, I'm fairly new to WCF and API's in general so i don't know if this is even remotely possible. I have a web service created using WCF that works fine when being used by a .net client application or SoapUI or any other reasonably intelligent software (over a basicHttpBinding). But i have a client now who insists on using it in their o...

Drupal. Get path alias from current url without the installation's folder arguments

Hi guys, I'd like to retrieve the current page path alias without the installation's folder arguments. I'm using: drupal_get_path_alias(request_uri()) But this returns installation/whatever/actual/path and I want to retrieve the actual/path only no matter what installation/whatever is. Thanks in advance :) ...

Best free online storage service api

I want to make my Web site users be able to upload small or large files and post to share with other users, the files must be publically available online. I want to use a free online storage service for the job, which one should I use? I dont mind if there are ads. ...

Is there any google Image search API for ActionScript\MXML developers?

Is there any google Image search API for ActionScript\MXML developers? ...