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Question about CSSTidy

In opposite to most other CSS parsers, no regular expressions are used and thus CSSTidy has full CSS2 support and a higher reliability. I wonder why CSSTidy built their own parser and not utilized the official SAC API (which also includes support for the new CSS3)? Is there any technical or practical reason for not using SAC a...

Can't use Post in Google Contact API

I'm trying Google Contact API from oAuth Playground. I post data <atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"&gt; <atom:category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#group"/&gt; <atom:title type="text">Salsa group</atom:tit...

Scribd API - Upload document, grab embed code and Post that code into the document.

Is it possible in the Scribd API to grab the embed code from a newly uploaded document and paste that code into a blog post. This will allow users to upload their documents without having to worry about the embed code. ...

Is it possible to allow access to an application using API

Is it possible to allow access for an api through API.? I dont want the user to manually Allow an application using Allow page?? Is this possible??? ...

How to pull down bank transaction records?

I have noticed that some applications provide functionality allowing the user to pull down transaction records (usually for credit cards) from an online banking system. Usually specific banks are supported. What is the general method to achieve this (i.e., using an API, or something else)? I have seen a web app that supports the bank th...

Querying over 1,000,000 records using salesforce Java API and looking for best approach

I am developing a Java application which will query tables which may hold over 1,000,000 records. I have tried everything I could to be as efficient as possible but I am only able to achieve on avg. about 5,000 records a minute and a maximum of 10,000 at one point. I have tried reverse engineering the data loader and my code seems to b...

Can anyone help me scrape the Amazon Products API using Ruby?

Hi, I'm using the amazon-product-advertising-api gem and am following the example code to try and grab music album data. The code I have is as follows: post '/mash' do username = params[:username] user = Scrobbler::User.new(username) @recommendations = user.recommendations @urls = { } @recommendations.each do |t...

Where is a good resources for all the Javascript APIs for HTML5

I'm looking for a reference that summarizes all of the available Javascript APIs that are introduced with HTML 5, for each browser that has implemented any of the new features. Does something like this exist? If nothing else, then at least the VIDEO tag ...

Dynamically replacing simple DOM element with a template, processed with web-service's result values

M(model): HTML, V(view): CSS, C(Controller): JavaScript Hi, I'm maintaining a personal bookshelf (a list of books) in a simple static HTML document, ie: <ul> <li class="book">Kitting tips and tricks</li> <li class="book">La Bonne Cuisine Of Madame E. Saint-Ange: The Essential Companion For Authentic French Cooking</li> <li class...

What web-service can I use to send MMS from my web app?

I am looking for a web service API that I can use to send MMS messages. Most web services like Twilio and TextMarks only support SMS. I am looking for a similar service that supports MMS. Are there any out there? ...

Getting the latest exchange rates for currencies

Does someone know of a reliable free web service providing the latest exchange rates ? I do not need accuracy to the minute, just to the day. ...

Python Virtualbox API

I have made a command-line interface for virtualbox such that the virtualbox can be controlled from a remote machine. now I am trying to implement the commmand-line interface using python virtualbox api. For that I have downloaded the pyvb package (python api documentation shows functions that can be used for implementing this under pyv...

Need a client side API for determing geo location of IP addresses

I need a client side API in either Java or Ruby. I would much prefer need this to be LOCAL only. Infact this might not even be an IP, but more of a database import. The thing is that I cannot make use of a web service based one as that is too much heavy I/O for me. Note: By geolocation, all I really need is country/region at best. I wou...

How to spoof a java package (and thus a part of the API) in OSGi?

Is it possible to spoof a part of the standard Java API, by exporting your own bundle that replaces this API? Of course with the same interfaces. Would it then be possible for other bundles, not to notice that actually they aren't using the java package, but your own package. ...

java api design - NULL or Exception

Is it better to return a null value or throw an exception from an API method? Returning a null requires ugly null checks all over, and cause a major quality problem if the return is not checked. Throwing an exception forces the user to code for the faulty condition, but since Java exceptions bubble up and force the caller code to handl...

Order YouTube videos by date?

Im having problems getting the results sorted by date in my search... In the API reference it says i have to use: videoSearch.setResultOrder(google.search.Search.ORDER_BY_DATE); But when using this, my script stops working... The code: function OnLoad() { // Create a search control searchControl = new google.search.SearchC...

VMWareLabManagerSoap interface

I'm trying to connect to the Lab Manager SOAP API and have followed the instructions in the API guide: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/labmanager_SOAP_API_Guide.pdf. However, I constantly get an error in Visual Studio that says: Error 1 The type or namespace name 'VMwareLabManagerSOAPinterface' does not exist in the namespace 'ConsoleApplica...

Amazon products information mining

Hello, I'm new to this "information mining". So I am wondering is there an API that will let me get needed information about products from Amazon's web site? Or, if there isn't, how would you do that? Maybe any suggestion/reference to some technology which can do this? Thanks in advance for sharing. ...

Implementing URL Shorteners in my iPhone Application

How do I implement is.gd's URL shortening API in my iPhone Application? ...

Java: Are there some quasi-standard APIs out there, which do int[] <-> Integer[] and similar?

Hello, everyone! I need to do lots of conversions between primitivetype[] and boxedtype[] (both directions). Such as: Integer[] <-> int[], Double[] <-> double[], ... I wanted to know, if there's some quasi-standards APIs out there, which provide such functionality, before I write such utility methods by myself. Java has 8 primitive ty...