Is there a best practice for using email/user accounts for 3rd part APIs in a business scenario? For example say my company domain is foo.com, and I need to access data from Flicker, youtube, twitter, facebook, jigsaw, Amazon, ebay, and many others. Should I have seperate email addresses/user names like [email protected],youtubeaip@f...
How do I change desktop wallpaper? I tried this procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var PicPath: String; begin PicPath := 'C:\test.bmp'; SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, pChar(PicPath), SPIF_SENDCHANGE) end; But it didn't work. ...
We are adding some stored procedures to our product that can be called by 3rd-party clients. Are there best practices for parameter validation, return values, RAISERROR, etc? 3rd-party clients will not have direct table access, only to certain sprocs. The table touched by the sprocs is well-constrained but we want to be as user-friendly...
What is the best way to draw things in the Console Window on the Win 32 platform using C++? I know that you can draw simple art using symbols but is there a way of doing something more complex like circles or even bitmaps? ...
I'm trying to work with the data in my Rails application from within a separate Ruby script. I read this forum post in which some people suggest that the best way to work with your data is to encapsulate the database within one application, and then have this application provide an API for working with that data. Because it's apparently...
I've import contacts from gmail by using gdata api, and is there any apis like that for hotmail/live/Aol ? ...
Hi, I'm using the Ooyala API (http://www.ooyala.com/support/docs/player%5Fapi) to embed videos and want to dynamically change the titles as the videos change. I've embebbed the video in the html using the following code; <script src="http://www.ooyala.com/player.js?width=750&height=312&embedCode=dwbjp-XdAc-w6mATLnMIuwBRxHfF...
Do the Yellow Pages (more specifically Canada 411) have an API for searches? Any other company that has mined the information would be fine too. I was having a chat with someone yesterday about their business. He told me every time he starts a specific construction project he must notify every residential address within a certain radius...
what are the APIs do i need to download in order to make ADO.NET Entity Framework available for my VS 2008 professional edition. ...
I'm looking Specifically for some detailed information on RETSBond Integrator (RI) or something similar. Has anyone used it? Drawbacks? benefits? What I need is something that provides a PHP API out of the box or some kind of RPC exposure. This thing seems to provide an API for batching the MLS server and putting in my own DB which is a...
Implementing constant contact in asp.net ...
Does anyone have any good resources for working with the TFS 2010 API? I specifically looking at how to create, read, update and delete work items. ...
Hi I work on a big project in company. We collect data which we get via API methods of the CMS. ex. DataSet users = CMS.UserHelper.GetLoggedUser(); // returns dataset with users Now on some pages we need many different data, not just users, also Nodes of the tree of the CMS or specific data of subtreee. So we thought of write an ...
I have an API defined as follows bool IsValid() Now, I want to modify the API so that if the return value is false, then I need additional information why the validation failed. I'm looking for an elegant want to solve the problem... Here are the options I have Option 1: bool IsValid(ref string errorMessage) errorMessage is updated ...
Has anyone had success in resubscribing an email address after being unsubscribed via the Campaign Monitor API. I ask as i want to keep a list of Active User's email addresses in my CM Active List. When they are suspended they get removed, when they join or pay their fees before getting deleted they are (re)subscribed. Looking at the R...
Hello, I would like to access in real time to the data of the camera to get the hue of several points in order to guide the user (inform him when is the best moment to take the picture). The application will be probably available on the appstore and then I want to just use allowed API. I've seen a lot of similar topics, some of them tel...
What Facebook API call should I make in order to find new friends by First and Last name? The functionality that I'm trying to achieve is similar to Find Friends page, but I have to do that programmatically. Many thanks in advance. Sincerely, Roman ...
For some locations there is no driving directions available in the Google Maps API, but it works perfectly in maps.google.com. One such location is Orchha, India. I have tried it with different combinations like providing: state name, lattitude and longitude, but it not works in google API alone but it works in Google Maps site. is there...
Consider the following Python (3.x) code: class Foo(object): def bar(self): pass foo = Foo() How to write the same functionality in C? I mean, how do I create an object with a method in C? And then create an instance from it? Edit: Oh, sorry! I meant the same functionality via Python C API. How to create a Python method ...
This is a combination of my two recent questions: [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1954494/python-instance-method-in-c [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1956142/how-to-redirect-stderr-in-python I would like to log the output of both stdout and stderr from a python script. The thing I want to ask is, to create a new type acco...