How does Google's javascript API get around the cross-domain security in AJAX
How does Google's API make cross-domain requests back to Google, when it's on your website? ...
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Anybody know where I can get docs or tutorials on VSS 2005 Integration via .net.
I know that I can add the SourceSafeTypeLib to a project and can explore it in object browser and find obvious things (GetLatest, etc), but I am looking for some more thorough documentation or specific tutorials on things like "undo another user's checkout" or"determine who has a file checked out. If anyone knows where to find this mat...
How can I find out what category a product belongs to?
Basically, when a user inputs a product name (such as "iPhone 3g"), I would like to know the parent categories of that item (such as Electronics / Mobile phones). Is there a web api (ie. for ebay, amazon etc.) or any other way to figure out that information? ...
Should all public methods of an API be documented?
When writing "library" type classes, is it better practice to always write markup documentation (i.e. javadoc) in java or assume that the code can be "self-documenting"? For example, given the following method stub: /** * Copies all readable bytes from the provided input stream to the provided output * stream. The output stream will...
Best DNS with API access.
I saw this over on slashdot and realized if I could program in dns control into some of my apps it would make life a lot easier. Someone over there recommended dynect which apparently had a wonderful api. Unfortunately not a lot else was recomended. I don't know anything about managing dns servers I mostly work with the lamp stack, so on...
Is there .Net replacement for GetAsyncKeyState?
In VB6, I used a call to the Windows API, GetAsyncKeyState, to determine if the user has hit the ESC key to allow them to exit out of a long running loop. Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal nVirtKey As Long) As Integer Is there an equivalent in pure .NET that does require a direct call to the API? ...
So you've entered the wild rainforest of someone's new API. How do you find your way through?
Got any tips for me with regards to figuring out new APIs? I'm trying to overcome my irrational fear of properly learning to work with other peoples' code, so I can seriously use all the advice I can get! ...
Is it possible to call a COM API from Java?
Is it possible to call a COM API from Java (specifically the HP/Mercury Quality Center OTA API)? If so, what's the best way? Is something like JACOB appropriate? Code fragments would be helpful for the basics :-) ...
Java - Console-like web applet.
Hey, I've been developing an application in the windows console with Java, and want to put it online in all of its console-graphics-glory. Is there a simple web applet API I can use to port my app over? I'm just using basic System.out and System.in functionality, but I'm happy to rebuild my I/O wrappers. I think something along these ...
What are the merits of CSV and/or JSON and/or XML and/or ??? output in a REST API?
We're currently trying to plan a new developer API for our application and debating the various data formats we should use for interchange. We're also going to be using this API for our official desktop application so we're going to have a working implementation before it goes public. There's a fairly intense discussion going on about ...
Team Foundation Server - Use API to Sync to SVN
Has anyone out there used TFS's API to synchronize different types of repositories? I have a SVN repo that I want to sync with a TFS repo. More accurately, I just want to take everything latest from SVN occasionally (nightly) and dump it out to TFS as the latest version. Any advice? ...
What are the best practices for designing a RESTful public API on Rails?
What are the best practices for this? Rails comes with RESTful resources out of the box, but do you use those for your actual public API? If so, how would you accomplish versioning of your API (i.e. example.com/api/v2/foo/bar, etc)? ...
StringCollection or an Object container?
I recently built an API and was often asked to replace the StringCollections i was returning by objects containing a single property, The reason being that it was easier to bind with a listview or other controls in ASP.Net. Since the API was used by the web application, the Web service and the dataloader I decided on keeping the StringC...
Anyone successfully using Commission Junction API ?
Is anyone successfully using the CJ web services? I just keep getting java.lang.NullPointerExceptions even though my app is .net (clearly their errors). CJ support doesn't even know what a web service is. I googled and found many people getting this or other errors. Question is: is it a temporary problem or am I doomed to parse manually ...
Best book for Programming VMWare ESX + VDI
Hi, I've been asked to research creating a solution around VMWare ESX and VDI. This will require extensive use of the APIs for managing the solution. It will also look to leverage the VDM client. Can anyone recommend a good book which will get me started on this topic. Thanks. ...
How do I move a TFS file with c# API?
Hello there, I have been googling for a good time on how to move a file with c# using the TFS API. The idea is to have a folder on which the developers drop database upgrade scripts and the build process get's to the folder creates a build script and moves all the files on the folder to a new folder with the database build version that...
How can I create Exchange distribution list inside the GAL using .NET?
We need to remotely create an Exchange 2007 distribution list from Asp.Net. Near as I can tell, the only way to create a distribution list in the GAL is via the exchange management tools. Without installing this on our web server, is there any way to create a distribution list remotely? There are some third party components that allow...
How to handle functions deprecation in library?
I'm working on a Java library and would like to remove some functions from it. My reasons for this is public API and design cleanup. Some objects have setters, but should be immutable, some functionality has been implemented better/cleaner in different methods, etc. I have marked these methods 'deprecated', and would like to remove them...
Do any mapping APIs provide road details?
I'm looking for a mapping API (Google Maps-esque), preferably in PHP, that will provide driving instructions between two locations (not necessarily US-based), but will also give information on the type of roads used. The information doesn't have to be very specific - I'd be happy with knowing whether the roads taken are either urban or m...
GB English, or US English?
If you have an API, and you are a UK-based developer with a highly international audience, should your API be setColour() or setColor() (To take one word as a simple example.) UK-based engineers are often quite defensive about their 'correct' spellings but it could be argued that US spelling is more 'standard' in the internationa...