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Proper API Design for Version Independence?

I've inherited an enormous .NET solution of about 200 projects. There are now some developers who wish to start adding their own components into our application, which will require that we begin exposing functionality via an API. The major problem with that, of course, is that the solution we've got on our hands contains such a spider ...

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

Is there any Flickr Image search API for ActionScript\MXML developers? (if special keys are not needed for using it will be big +) ...

define global in a python module from C api

Sorry for the trivial question, but I can't find this infomation from the manual. I am developping a module for python using C api; how can I create a variabile that is seen as global from python? For example if my module is module I want to create a variable g that do this job: import module print module.g in particular g is an integ...

is it possible to programmatically check the service provider for a cell number?

is there a database or API available where i can enter a cell phone number and it will spit out whoever the providor is like tmobile or verizon? ...

Why does every third party control set rewrite the basics of ASP.Net?

Of the control sets I've seen for ASP.Net they all exhibit a strange property. They rewrite everything in the ASP.Net control set. For instance both DevExpress and Telerik have their own Panel, Label, and UpdatePanel controls among others. Why do vendors do this? Is it just to create a form of lock in or is it actually necessary? ...

Store latitudes and longitudes in database for proximity/radius search using Google Maps API, .NET and SQL Server

What is the approach for storing the latitudes and longitudes for multiple addresses as a one time set up. I need to find the nearby stores using Google Maps and I have to get the latitudes and longitudes of all the available stores. As the data is huge and may increase or change in future, can anyone suggest an approach taking performan...

how to use Facebook.showPermissionDialog(‘publish_stream,read_stream’) in asp.net application for the facebook pages

Hi All, I am using Facebook.showPermissionDialog("publish_stream,read_stream"). It is displaying dialog in pageload. In facebook wikipage they are showing ex: Facebook.showPermissionDialog('publish_stream,read_stream', ondone, enableProfileSelector, [1234,2345]); Can any one explain me here : what is - ondone, enableProfileSelector, [1...

GKAchievement.completed

Maybe I still don't know how to properly find details on APIs (or how to find the APIs I am looking for) but is there any documentation on the new GameKit API items? Particularly the achievements, scores, etc. ...

Office Communicator Auto Accept Calls with C# API

Is there a way to automatically accept calls programmed with the C# Api when someone calls 'me' to start a video call? Starting a video call with the API is easy: var contactArray = new ArrayList(); contactArray.Add("[email protected]"); object[] sipUris = new object[contactArray.Count]; int currentObject = 0; foreach (object contactObject...

API-based solutions for sending payments to people without bank accounts

I'm looking for inexpensive ways to send payments to hundreds or thousands of individual contractors, even if they do not have a bank account. Currently I only need to support payment in the USA, but may eventually be international. What solutions exist that expose an API that I can submit payment details to? Or at least submit a batch...

Wikipedia API: list=alllinks confusion

I'm doing a research project for the summer and I've got to use get some data from Wikipedia, store it and then do some analysis on it. I'm using the Wikipedia API to gather the data and I've got that down pretty well. What my questions is in regards to the links-alllinks option in the API doc here After reading the description, both th...

Java Swing how to create a task reminder

How to create a event reminder. Example, an user created an event which is today 5.00pm and stored it into database. When ruun the program the reminder will pop up if the system time is 5.00pm. Is there any API can do that? From google what I got was those freeware. ...

User Database Script for iPhone API interaction

Is there any kind of PHP script that has a user database with custom tables that I can access through a RESTful API? I am wanting to create an iPhone app that interacts with the user database.. such as register, login, update info... Any ideas? Thanks! ...

How to use a precompiled dynamic library in visual studio c++?

I want to use a precompiled library in my project. I have 3 folders: Include (.h files), Lib (with .lib files) and Bin (with .dll files and .pdb files). I've never used precompiled libraries before (I hope this is the right term. correct me if I'm wrong). I want to use this API. How to add all this stuff to my project? I use visual stud...

post on facebook page wall as facebook admin through facebook php api

Hi, I would like to post feed to facebook page wall as page admin. I can publish post to facebook wall with publish_stream from fb php api, but it is just as a normal facebook user. May I know how can I do likewise as a page admin (meaning that the post publish from facebook page and not from other fb user on the page wall)? Thank you....

Facebook Graph API + Facebook Pages

Using Facebook's Graph API, given a username xyz (assuming they've authenticated my site), how do I get a list of all of the facebook pages that the user administers? ...

How would I go about making an instant messaging system?

Is there an API or anything to help build an application around the instant messaging capabilities of Live Messenger and others? What tools and systems could a developer leverage to help launch such functionality in their application? ...

How to extract facebook page replies into a website?

Hi all, I've got a facebook page. In it there is the RSS feed of posts from my blog. In the facebook page people have replied to my blog posts that where posted on facebook. Now I wish to show these replies on my blog. Is there any way for doing that? ...

getting the url of the page and the url of the selected hyperlink

Hi This is pretty hard to explain but i'll give it a shot. Working with Safari to create an extension as is now possible with Safari 5 - how would I go about getting the URL of the current page with using JavaScript and the Safari API? I would also like to be able to get a hyperlink that is selected. For instance in Safari when you r...

How to expose a web appication via API ?

Hi , we have create a web application on top of google app engine and python. which is almost about to complete it web front phase. I would also like to make it available almost all part of it to external applications. { via , xml , json , http , as many as possible. } . what's the best way to do it ? any library either for python or dja...