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How does Google Maps secure their API Key? How to make something similar?

Currently Google requires you to create an API Key that is specific to the domain of where the map will be served from. How does Google enforce this? I want to do the same thing. I expose an API for my service but want to allow clients to embed calls to the API via javascript and not just from the server. I could secure it with just a r...

google map gecoding address parser

i want to parse the addresses from google gecoding api and store it as: address city state zipcode country some places has full address from google map and some just half, how can i know which part of the address is city, state or country? or just zipcode? it would be helpful if some expert pointed out some help here. ...

How To Aggregate API Data?

Hi, I have a system that connects to 2 popular APIs. I need to aggregate the data from each into a unified result that can then be paginated. The scope of the project means that the system could end up supporting 10's of APIs. Each API imposes a max limit of 50 results per request. What is the best way of aggregating this data so that...

Storing XML in a Database for Flexible Content

I'm working on building a system that aggregates content from several different RSS feeds and API's, stores it, and then outputs it with unique formatting based on the source of the content. My current plan is to create an XML structure for each unique type, storing each record using that structure in a MySQL database, and then retrievi...

How to integrate my BigCommerce.com store into Basecamp?

Hi. I'm interested in pushing my customer list from my BigCommerce store to 37Signals Basecamp product. Can anyone point me in the right direction? BigCommerce has an API but I have no idea how to hook it into Basecamp? ...

Where can i find API for VK.com in C++

Where can i find API for VK.com (vkontakte.ru) in C++ ...

The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized

I m trying to embed Bulk SMS API in my website ...But the code is giving 401 ASPX : <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>%> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3...

Changing background of text in edit control

can you change the background of text in area of edit control that would stay static? ...

Does facebook have a public search API yet?

I can't seem to find the definitive word out there of the facebook search api: the api that allows you to search public status updates and comments/posts (there is a web interface for all logged in users for this at the moment). ...

OSX API Question: Where does BlockZero live?

I'm trying to compile a program I've been working with on OSX 10.6 It compiles fine under 10.5 but now I get an undeclared error for something called BlockZero. I'm not sure what this function is, what it does or where it lives. What do I have to import to fix this? Some Googling suggests it might be part of Carbon. Is there a particu...

Is there a way to schedule a task in Windows Mobile?

Hello, I have a simple question: is there a way in Windows Mobile to schedule a specific task, for example running a .NET program or send a mail, to a precise date and time? Whatever the technology is, I mean native API, .NET classes or even an existing Windows Mobile program. I am about to start a project but before I want to be reall...

CFHost DNS Resolution - When is it OK to use synchronous API?

I went to the iPhone Developer Tech Talk a few months ago and asked one of the gurus there about the lack of NSHost on the iPhone. Some code I was porting to the iPhone made significant use of NSHost throughout its networking code. I was told that NSHost is on the iPhone, but its private. I was also told that NSHost is a synchronous API...

Can we count how many times an item has been shared in Google Reader?

This is related to recent "Google Buzz Count" feature on famous blog Mashable - http://mashable.com/2010/02/12/google-buzz-buttons-count/ While trying to dig into logic they are using for "Google Buzz Count", I somehow reached to the conclusion that, essentially, they are counting how many times an item has been shared in Google Reader?...

iPhone Objective-C Simplest Way to get a stock quote

Hi guys Im wondering what is the simplest way to get the current price of a stock from say yahoo finance (or similar) in objective-C For the iPhone SDK. Simple is the key, I am looking for current price, and days movement. I havent had much luck finding an iPhone code example or library. regards ...

did yahoo finance api stock returning stock option data?

i'm using the yahoo finance api for stock and stock option data. this used to work: http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=VCR.X&amp;f=l1c1n that's once of the options for Visa. this doesn't work anymore, and when i go to yahoo finance their option symbols are all differnt now, looking like this: VEH100220P00055000 that's an option ...

What are the characteristics of a Scalable, Secure and Easy to Use Web Services?

Our application currently exposes web services built with WSDL 1.1 and SOAP 1.1 following the w3c standards below: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http is the WSDL 1.1 binding for the SOAP 1.1 HTTP binding. We want to revamp our web services to be Scallable, Secure and Easy to Use Easy to use refer to the fact that at this mom...

What does apply_filters(...) actually do in WordPress?

Hello I'm trying to understand some of the function in WordPress, but I can't get my head around what apply_filters(...) actually does. Is someone able to clear this up for me with a few examples? Cheers Turgs ...

Which version of OpenGL/Direct3D should I target for optimum compatability?

When we develop web pages we can broadly work out which browsers to support based on market share. When we develop in .NET we can broadly work out which .NET version to develop for based on which Windows versions have it installed. But when developing OpenGL or Direct3D applications, how do we know which video cards people (I mean "peo...

Can I post a content directly from a website to the website's facebook page?

I've been reading through the fb developer api documentation and I'm trying to find out what would be the easiest way to post information on a website to the website's own facebook page. for instance - the assumed workflow is like this: an admin user adds new content to the company website - and once submitted that content should autom...

Twitterizer API Questions

Hi all, I've recently been playing around with the awesome Twitterizer Twitter API using C# WPF in Visual Studio 2008. It's been working the most part, but I do have some questions about it. 1) How can I make it so that the login screen is a different windows that closes when you log in, unless there is a login failure? 2) How can I ...