Linux has libnotify and OS X has growl. Is there some kind of Notification API for Windows too? It should be accessible via .Net languages. Clarification: Yes I'm looking for an way to send notification to the user, but it won't harm if one can subscribe to certain events with programs too. The linux libnotify uses a system wide D-Bu...
Looking for a screencasting program with an api. Free or open source is not a requirement, but is a plus. I've been writing software that will automate screencasts, but I need to find a decent screencasting app that will be easily available. Something like iShowU for windows. ...
At the company I work for we have a "Utility" project that is referenced by pretty much ever application we build. It's got lots of things like NullHelpers, ConfigSettingHelpers, Common ExtensionMethods etc. The way we work is that when we want to make a new project, we get the latest version of the project from source control add it to...
Is there any library (or even better, web service) available which can convert from a latitude/longitude into a time zone? ...
Plug-in systems in C++ are hard because the ABI is not properly defined, and each compiler (or version thereof) follows its own rules. However, COM on Windows shows that it's possible to create a minimal plug-in system that allows programmers with different compilers to create plug-ins for a host application using a simple interface. L...
Since I pound API docs pretty hard when I'm coding, I like to have them on my local disk. jQuery.com lists a lot of sources for browsing the API documentation online, but I haven't found anywhere I can download an HTML bundle as a TAR or ZIP file. Is such a bundle available? EDIT: I should have said that I want an HTML version. UPDATE:...
Does Google Reader have an API and if so, how can I get the count of the number of unread posts for a specific user knowing their username and password? ...
How do sites like yahoo get their NFL information. I wanted to tap into NFL information for a web app. ...
So I'm getting really sick of E*TRADE and, being a developer, would love to find an online broker that offers an API. It would be great to be able to write my own trading tools, and maybe even modify existing ones. Based on my research so far, I've only found one option. Interactive Brokers offers a multi-language API (Java/C++/ActiveX/...
I am looking for a FTP Server that has a decent API. It would be great if I could code use the .NET Framework. I am currently using Secure FTP from GlobalSCAPE but I have had less than plesant experiences working with it. ...
Hi, When trying to implement a asynchronous API calls / Non-blocking calls, i know a little in a All Plain-C applicaiton I have, i read a about APM(Asynchronous Programming Model) by 'Delegates'. Basically what i want to do is call one API f1() to do a functionality(which takes long time 8-10 seconds), So i call that API f1(), forget a...
We are developing a middleware SDK, both in C++ and Java to be used as a library/DLL by, for example, game developers, animation software developers, Avatar developers to enhance their products. What I would like to know is this: Are there standard "Best Practices" for the development of these types of API? I am thinking in terms of us...
I have looked in vain for a good example or starting point to write a java based facebook application... I was hoping that someone here would know of one. As well, I hear that facebook will no longer support their java API is this true and if yes does that mean that we should no longer use java to write facebook apps?? ...
We are developing a middleware SDK, both in C++ and Java to be used as a library/DLL by, for example, game developers, animation software developers, Avatar developers to enhance their products. Having created a typical API using specific calls for specific functions I am considering simplifying the API by using a REST type API (GET, PU...
Are there any good APIs and public datasets (dictionaries, phrases) for working w/ natural languages? Specifically, do any good ones exist for working on translation between English and Korean? ...
I'm working on an application that needs to quickly render simple 3D scenes on the server, and then return them as a JPEG via HTTP. Basically, I want to be able to simply include a dynamic 3D scene in an HTML page, by doing something like: <img src="http://www.myserver.com/renderimage?scene=1&x=123&y=123&z=123"> My ques...
Some users on a site I have been working on have requested the ability to allow the server to set their aim status when they are listening to a song though our flash music player. I looked at the AIM developer pages, but didn't see any API for PHP. I would be more than willing to write my own, but first I want to make sure that it will ...
I'm trying to draw a graph on an ASP webpage. I'm hoping an API can be helpful, but so far I have not been able to find one. The graph contains labeled nodes and unlabeled directional edges. The ideal output would be something like this. Anybody know of anything pre-built than can help? ...
I have a list of addresses from a Database for which I'd like to put markers on a Yahoo Map. The addMarker() method on YMap takes a YGeoPoint, which requires a latitude and longitude. However, Yahoo Maps must know how to convert from addresses because drawZoomAndCenter(LocationType,ZoomLevel) can take an address. I could convert by using...
XmlElement.Attributes.Remove* methods are working fine for arbitrary attributes resulting in the removed attributes being removed from XmlDocument.OuterXml property. Xmlns attribute however is different. Here is an example: XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.InnerXml = @"<Element1 attr1=""value1"" xmlns=""http://mynamespace.com/""...