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is there any API exists for Moodle?

I want to create a customized front end for Moodle. Does anyone know that from where I can get API for this? or any other help? ...

Ideas on how to approach a project involving Integration of APIs

I am a student and working on developing a Java Application that would serve as a "Translation Layer" between one application's web service calls to another application's JMX API. Both the applications reside on 2 different systems in the same network. So, essentially, it involves a deliverable program that converts one application's we...

LinkedIn Groups and Google Maps integration

Has anyone seen an implementation of Google Maps using LinkedIn group information? Specifically I would like to plot the location of members within a group as pins on a Google Map. Any help or guidance would be great. Thanks. ...

How to control a camera with Delphi

A Delphi programm should make produkt photos with a Nikon D5000AF SDX. The only commands I need are "make a photo", "get me the photo". Which library or API can help me? ...

Issues using a Fedex Webservice via WDSL/SOAP

Hi Everyone, I downloaded the sample code to request a rate from fedex's website... i placed the WSDL file in the proper location, I have my acct number, password, meter number, and key. When I run the script I get this error: Error in processing transaction. ERROR prof 1000 Authentication Failed The script they give is as ...

Google Calendar API Sharing Example

Hi Experts, I am looking for examples of share calendar and share event using google calendar API in any programming language java, .net, java script. Thanks, Aqeel ...

Social Network Storage Policies

Does anyone know offhand what the storage policies are for user information retrieved through the apis of twitter, linkedin or myspace? For example, facebook does not allow storage of any kind of user information (ie first name, last name...) for more than 24 hours. ...

REST api pagination: make page-size a parameter (configurable from outside)

Hi guys, we are having a search/list-resource: http://xxxx/users/?page=1 Internally the page-size is static and returns 20 items. The user can move forward by increasing the page number. But to be more flexible we are now thinking also to expose the size of a page: http://xxxx/users/?page=1&size=20 As such this is flexible ...

Is there a lightweight, programmable Sandbox API for the Windows platform?

To run untrusted code at home I use a VMWare virtual machine. I want to find an alternate lightweight sandbox API for running untrusted applications, without the overhead of installing VMWare, or any other kind of end-user virtualization tool like that. (Edit: I don't want it to host an OS - I want it to run untrusted apps). Ideally the...

reflection to list return types, parameters in C# application from specific namespace

I've been working on an API that encapsulates another, trickier-to-use API. The goal is for my API to not require the user to touch any of the old API by 1) not requiring any parameters of classes in the old API and 2) not returning any instances of classes in the old API. Is there a program, perhaps a Visual Studio plugin, that can an...

Web API Design: Form POST'ing key-value pairs: JSON or checkbox style?

Design question for RESTful APIs: one of the input parameters to my API (that is, the data sent from the client to my API) is a dictionary (hash / key-value pairs). What's the best way to encode this so that the API can be easily invoked from web pages as well as scripts/programming languages? My first thought was to json encode the obj...

RESTful user authentication service

Hey folks, this seems to have been discussion fairly often but I want to make a simple, watered down question around doing authentication with RESTful services. The scenario is as follows: There is a system that houses registered users for an application. The system exposes a RESTful API for accessing these users. There is a fro...

iPhone Application Development: Built in applications enhanced

Hi all, I just saw an iphone application that enhances the built in "messages" application to send emotions. What this application does is that it extends the functionality of the Keyboard that appears in notes or messages application, and user can send emotion icons as messages. This application doesn't work when the emotions are sent ...

Finding if domain name is already registered?

Hi, Is there any API to lookup if a given domain name is already registerd by somebody and get alternative (auto suggested available domain names)? EDIT:- I think the thing I need is called domain-search not the lookup :) ...

Last.fm API: are Etag/Last-Modified headers supported?

When using the REST interface for Last.fm web service, are the "Etag" and/or "Last-Modified" HTTP headers provided in the responses? E.g. let's say I plan on using the track.getTags API method, is either "Etag" / "Last-Modified" HTTP header sent along with the response? (NOTE: I have asked the same question on Last.fm's "discussion boa...

PDFLib opinions/experiences

My organization is considering PDFlib for dynamically creating PDF files (http://www.pdflib.com/) in our Java (Spring/Tomcat) environment. Does anyone have experiences that they can share about the pro/cons of this Library? ...

How do I post a file over HTTP via public API in ASP NET ?

I have a web application. I am using C#. I have existing methods in my API for various things but all only submit and return bool/int/strings. All of my API methods have the directive System.ServiceModel.OperationContract All the parameters are of System.Runtime.Serialization.DataMember I would like to be able to receive a poste...

One eCommerce Store using multiple PayPal accounts

Hello, I was wondering if someone knew of a way to theoretically have one eCommerce store to act as a medium where sellers can sign up and sell goods and use their PayPal account to receive payments instead? So, Vendor A signs up, stores their PayPal information. Whenever a customer purchases items form Vendor A, the money goes straigh...

How can my web app retrieve Twitter user photos without hitting the API limit?

I am writing a web app that needs Twitter user's profile photos only. I retrieve these by parsing the users/show XML unauthenticated API call (http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-users%C2%A0show): $twitterXML = simplexml_load_file("http://twitter.com/users/show/".$twitterUsername.".xml"); In my testing I have been hitt...

REST api versioning (only version the representation, not the resource itself)

I had a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/389169/best-practices-for-api-versioning, but am not quite convinced of the answer, so I am question the versioning part again with a more specific example. I am having two URIs (one with versioning as part of the URI and one without): http://xxxx/v1/user/123 -> favored solution in ...