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How to test Berkley socket (BSD) API?

I'd like to test the correctness and the completeness of an implementation of the BSP API. The test set has to be cross-compiled for an ARM sam7x. ...

Google Maps GDirections - Not Centering/Zoomimg in IE7

Best way to describe this problem is with a link. Please visit this page: Ruby International | APOAds.com In FireFox, everything works fine. In IE it load the directions but does not center on them. Perhaps it's only my PC, does it work on yours under IE? Here's the javascript doing the brunt of the work: $(function() { // panoram...

'Unstarring' posts using Google Reader API

Does anybody know how to remove stars for articles starred in Google Reader using its unofficial API? I found this one but it doesn't work: http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2005/12/google-reader-api.html Neither does the pyrfeed module in Python, I get the IOError exception every time. ...

Control Philips Living Colors using PC

Hi guys, is there a way (hardware/software-combination) that I can use to control one or more "Philips Living Colors" lamps using a PC - e.g. a USB-stick that acts as the "remote". This way i could control the lamp through software (e.g. a web-app - over iPhone / remotely) or even create what Philips builds into some of their TVs and ca...

How can I find shortened URLs that link to a specific long URL?

This is the reverse of the usual expanding short URLs question. For a given Long URL, how can I find which short URLs link to it? If this needs to go through the APIs of the shorteners, apointers ot the ones which support such a query would be appreciated. ...

Java memmove?

I'm in the process of porting some old C code to Java and, due to my inexperience with Java, I have encountered a problem locating a memmove equivalent. Is there such a method in Java? I've done enough research on it to assume that I'm overlooking something rather obvious. Thanks in advance. ...

URL-Based API Key Restriction: How does validation works?

Hi, I am interested to know how an URL-based api key restriction works, such as the one used by Google to protect its Google Maps service. From what I understand from this article "Restricting Access to Ajax Services," there are two parts involved: first where the service creates a specific key for a given domain, using a one-way hash ...

Is it possible to scan for bluetooth "id's" using the iphone gamekit api's

Hi Ok, before I get a ton of responses. I know you cannot talk to other bluetooth devices (exchanging data or otherwise). I was just wondering if the bluetooth id's appear when you use the Peer Picker as I'm currently investigating just the ability to detect other bluetooth devices not the actual pairing. Think of it like bluetooth RFI...

How to use win32 API's with python?

Hello, how to use win32 API's in python? what is the best and easiest way to do it? can you please provide some examples? thanks in advance ...

Should Guid.Empty Result in ArgumentException or ArgumentOutOfRangeException

Imagine that you have a method with the following signature: public void DoSomething(Guid id) If Guid.Emtpy represents an illegal value, which Exception type would it be most appropriate to throw? ArgumentException or ArgumentOutOfRangeException? I'm leaning slightly towards ArgumentException, since I don't think that all Guids excep...

Using Twitter as a mechanism to remote control applications?

I was brainstorming interesting usages of Twitter and came up with the following: An application can use it as a call home mechanism An application that has an invalid license could broadcast its location A software company could use it as a remote shell like interface and issue commands to shutdown, restart and to publish patches An a...

Good examples of Groovy APIs for RESTful web services

I'm writing my first Groovy API for a RESTful web service. Could someone please provide some good open-source examples or best-practices to inspire my API design? I'm considering using Groovy's Expandos, XML Parsing, and straight-forward URL request mechanism, but I'd like to hear other ways to make an API Groovy. Ideas? Thanks a bunc...

Is python a stable platform for facebook development?

I'm trying to build my first facebook app, and it seems that the python facebook (pyfacebook) wrapper is really out of date, and the most relevant functions, like stream functions, are not implemented. Are there any mature python frontends for facebook? If not, what's the best language for facebook development? ...

Can my web site contain GPL code if I provide an API?

Say my web site is based on GPL code. AFAIK providing a service to users through a web site - even a paid service - does not violate the GPL. This is because GPL is about distribution and I haven't delivered any code. I'm providing a service and may charge for it. However, suppose I provide an API to my web site and charge money for us...

X509 - Toolkit/API - C/C++ Certificate Management

Hello I am looking to identify a third party API which will perform certificate management using c/c++; Ideally, the API should perform the following, Generate CSR's Perform Certificate conversions(pem<>DER) Retrieves certificates from CA's Parsing X509 certificates to extract various fields like public key, subject name, i...

Best way to "hold" access to users other sites

I am playing with an idea that would allow people to add tickets to unfuddle, post a message to twitter/facebook etc. all from the one site. To do this I need their username/password for these other sites but I don't really want to know that information. Is there another way of achieving the same thing without having to holding this ki...

What is the safest way to implement Web Services / API?

I have a web site with users and their data accordingly. What is the safest way to implement web services / API such that users' login credentials and in turn data are secure? oAuth isn't really an option, because usage will not necessarily be in other web apps. My concern is that having the username and password as an input is dangero...

Using google API or building your own?

We are interested in using one or more of the Google APIs but we are afraid (or worried) about the future implication of this path. I will like to know other people's experiences of using the 3rd party API versus building their own service, if they found legal issues or if they found limitations other than the technical limitations. ...

Parallel API for C/C++ on Windows

We're developing something for the Windows platform and we'd like to harness the multiple cores present in PCs nowadays. I know that in VS2010, there is the Concurrency Runtime. It's still on Beta, though. For the meantime that we do need to release quality code now, what is a good option for an API that will allow smooth transition la...

SharePoint API: 2003 vs 2007

I have coded a solution that uses the 2007 API to traverse the SharePoint object model. Now I need to support SP 2003 as well. What is the best way to do this? Is it possible / recommended to use the 2007 api to get access to a 2003 SharePoint Farm? If I use the 2007 api, do I have to use the deprecated classes to (for instance) refer...