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Is there any Linux API, like windows get windows API, Mac get Cocoa?

I know that the Windows platform have windows API from Microsoft, and Mac get the Cocoa API from Apple. I want to know it there any API from the Linux Community? thx a lot. ...

Finding the URL for podcast feeds from an iTunes id. (iTMS API)

I'm look at a way of turning an iTunes podcast id into the RSS feed that the podcast producer serves. I'm aware of the RSS generator, which can be used to generate a feed of links to podcasts, but these links are to HTML pages. If you have iTunes open, you can manually export the list of podcasts by exporting to OPML, so we can surmis...

What is the best way to design a client API?

I often have to design client APIs for use by other programmers. The language can vary from Ruby, Java, Erlang and Javascript (Mootools). Does anyone have any tips on creating a very usable API. And yes, this "is" a very subjective question and I am asking so that I can make my APIs easier to use by others. ...

Python JSON New York Times API

Hi Everyone, Really new to Python and getting data from the web, so here it goes. I have been able to pull data from the NYT api and parse the JSON output into a CSV file. However, depending on my search, I may get the following error when I attempt to write a row to the CSV. UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode charac...

API for extracting blogs and their comments?

Hi Are there any apis I can use (preferably c#) which obtains blog data and their comments? Thanks have a nice day :) ...

How do I get the location type (apartment building, house, office complex, etc.) from confirmed address?

I built a web application that uses Yahoo Geocoding API or Google Maps API to validate the user's address. Now I want confirm if the user need to enter an apartment (or suite) number by the exact address I have. Maybe there is an API that provides both services. Right now, my application asks the user if he is in apartment building, ho...

Is There any handy way to get windows XP, windows 7 current login User Name in VC? Many Thanks!

I want to get current login user name in windows xp, windows 7, in c++. How can I do this? Is there any handy API without authority problem? Many thanks! ...

Any tips for creating a key value store abstraction layer?

With all the key value data stores out there I have started to create an abstraction layer so that a developer does not have to be tied in to a particular store. I propose to make libraries for: Erlang Ruby Java .NET Does anyone have any tips on how I should go about designing this API? Thanks ...

How can I access the version number of the Google Maps API in Javascript?

Does the Google Maps Javascript API have a property/method that returns its exact version number? I need this info for debugging purposes. ...

Private message and email integration

I'm building a web app that relies quite heavily on email notification/responses. I obviously don't want to rebuild gmail from scratch(!) but I'm not sure how to integrate an existing webmail client into my site. I've looked at RoundCube, AtMail and Squirrel but still am not sure if they're what I need. For users of my app to use those a...

I need to automate the process of adding an incoming port to a bluetooth connection

A contract programmer is building a simple application for me to automate the process of pairing a Bluetooth SPP device with a PC; we can do this with the standard Microsoft Bluetooth GUI, in which case, the result is both an incoming and outgoing port. The purpose of the project is to simplify this process for the ultimate user. The pr...

Getting Java Security Exception with java comm api from GWT

Im developing a GWT application to control an X10 home automation controller(USB Device). It uses the java Comm APi to communicate witht the controller. But im getting this exception when trying to call the comm api remotly. Initializing AppEngine server The server is running at http://localhost:8888/ javax.comm: Error loading javax.co...

File downloader written in ruby

Which APIs are necessary to make a file downloader in ruby programming language? ...

gChat Video API

I'm interested in making a 3rd party app for video conferencing through something like gChat, but their documentation is largely on the text-based portion of the technology. Where can I find some good resources to begin developing with gChat video? ...

Googe Maps APIv3 - how to overlay multiple markers with diferent png images.

Hi all, I'm currently working on a project which involves plotting lots of custom markers onto a map, then creating a popup page when clicked. This problem i'm having, being a newbie at javascript is getting a second marker image showing on the map. So far, i have the following code, as you see, the 'camera' icons work... but needing the...

I need an idea for a RESTful implementation of inventory API for an RPG game.

I'm working on an kind of an RPG game. And I'm trying to figure out a nice, clean and RESTful way to define inventory API. inventory consists of several slots like head, chest etc (like in most RPG games). Now I need to define REST API to move all items from slot X to slot Y. few ideas I had: well, obviously the inventory lives at /...

how to increase freebase API result limit

hi, I can't find anything in freebase's docs about it but it seems they limit the number of results to 100. For example: [{ "type":"/base/popstra/celebrity", "name":null }] Returns only 100 results whereas [{ "type":"/base/popstra/celebrity", return:"count" }] Says there are 6244 results. Does anyone know how to get the re...

Google equivalent to Yahoo Placemaker

Does Google has a service similar to Yahoo! Placemaker: Developers specify structured and unstructured content; feeds, web pages, news, status articles, etc. Placemaker identifies, disambiguates and extracts places Placemaker returns geographic metadata, which determines the whereness of structured and unstructured content ? Thanks ...

Developer Survey on Carrier Network APIs

Here’s a chance to tell a major national carrier which APIs (“enablers”) you want to see as a developer. The survey will take about 5 minutes and all participants will have a chance to win one of six Android smart phones. Thanks so much for your help and your feedback! To start the survey, go to http://devcentral.checkboxonline.com/netw...

YouTube API sometimes returns no description

i'm writing a web app to find videos on YT and sometimes a found video seems to have no description : it's value in the XML is (seems?) to be empty - I use SimplePie to read the search feed, but i guess this could be any .. eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GONzQlePpBg title: A Day To Remember - You Had Me At Hello .. it's just an exampl...