Hi. I'm looking to create a new site and in order to encourage myself to create a powerful API for others to use, I'm tempted to write the API and use it myself to build the the actual site. The idea being, if it is capable of running the primary site, then it will give other users plenty of options to put their own spin on things. It w...
Hello, I setup a directions page for a small company that I do work for. It has a few markers and lets people get directions to the location from wherever they are. For some reason, the page decided to stop coming up in the browser. I've done just about anything I could think and nothing has worked. I'm not the best at javascript but I...
I need a C/C++ API that allows me to list the running processes on a Linux system, and list the files each process has open. I do not want to end up reading the /proc/ file system directly. Can anyone think of a way to do this? ...
I despise working with overengineered APIs that don't make simple things simple. Nonetheless, I'm working on designing an API for an open-source library and I'm starting to feel that I'm falling into the overengineering trap. I really can't tell for sure because, of course, I wrote the darn thing, so how it works is more obvious to me ...
So, if you are writting an application -not a website- and you need to resolve the directions from one location to another, how can you get the information from Google Maps without using Javascript? I am wondering if there's any set of special URL or APIs on Google Maps that given a pair of locations (two city names) would return the ro...
A client would like me to add their Twitter stream to their website homepage, using a custom solution built in PHP. The Twitter API obviously has a limited number of calls you can make to it per hour, so I can't automatically ping Twitter every time someone refreshes my client's homepage. The client's website is purely HTML at the mome...
What points i should consider while building a website, and planing to support users with API to use? I see that most of famous websites are giving developers an API to deal with, such as facebook, twitter, google, .... There are any general points i should consider while building a new website to be able to support developers with an ...
I've been up and down the Facebook API as well as all over the internets looking for an answer to this question. Has anyone seen an example of a website that displays information pulled from a Facebook Page? Is this even possible? I've been able to run the demos provided at Trying Out Facebook Connect and the API Test Console, but I've...
I'm working on importing data from our application into Oracle Financials GL. It seems simple with the GL_INTERFACE table, and many resources online, but I don't seem to understand it. A powerpoint presentation An import API I'm looking for a simple way to post a transaction of $X on a specific date, between 2 or more accounts. I'm ...
I am creating and application that need to save images. I don't want to write it if it already exits, Anyone know of a product that I can use so I don't have to develop mine. I am using asp.net MVC. What I want is something with and API that I can save to and retrieve to ( I don't want to store the images in my system if its possible). ...
Hi, I need to make an existing LMS Scorm 1.2 compliant (only the basic calls). Does anyone know of any free scripts for this out there so as not to have to write this from scratch? Thanks! Michael ...
I'm having a debate with some engineers and trying to decide on the right choice here. I'd like to get your thoughts on this topic. Totally subjective. We've built an API for an iPhone app. It connects to our pre-existing business layer. The API is stateless but requires authentication for most calls/actions. But because there is authe...
Does anyone know of a good example utilizing the twitter API and Oauth authentication for iPhone SDK 2.2.1 or older? Found an example, but it seems to utilize a 3.0 only framework at http://ow.ly/bdpm . ...
I'm supposed to make a maps twitter mashup by monday. anybody have a smart thought as to how to make it go? My issue: you can get a feed of all tweets on a subject with the search API, but It doesn't seem like there is a way to get the search API to spit out user locations with the tweets. is the best way to do it really to: get the...
Hello Folks, I am trying to develop a application where The user 'X' has logged into Facebook app has a set of email addresses (possible friends of user 'X') app gets the list of friends of user 'X' (uids) Want to check if user with email address [email protected] is a valid facebook user by using email address and is user X's friend (ba...
I've recently programmed a REST web service API that allows another website to sign-up for my website remotely. I've programmed all the necessary validation and filtering in to the API. My question is, should I now ensure that my own registration form uses the web service API when handling user registration? The form itself already ha...
The labels added by YMarker.addAutoExpand are always clipping off the top or right edge of the map if they are added near the edge. Is there some way to prevent this? Ideally I'd like to be able to do something like set CSS overflow=visible for them. I tried setting overflow visible for the whole map, but that causes the map to show h...
Hi, I'm trying to find out if there's a wikipedia api (I Think it is related to the mediawiki?). If so, I would like to know how I would tell wikipedia to give me an article about the new york yankees for example. What would the REST url be for this example? All the docs on this subject seem fairly complicated. ...
I am looking at java APIs to convert JPEG file streams to TIFF files. I looked at the JAI but did not find something similar to what i am looking at. Can someone point me to a good API which does this ? ...
I want to replace the standard system open file dialog with the one I wrote, that means no matter within which programs you are opening a file, my dialog will be shown instead of the standard one, is this possible? It seems that that there is no such API provided to accomplish this, is it possible to use some hooking technique, but th...