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How To Use the Twilio API To Send an SMS Message
API University

Businesses are taking advantage of the ubiquity of mobile devices and SMS. This tutorial describes how to send an SMS message to a phone with PHP using the Twilio API. Twilio provides numerous communications services, including the ability to make and receive phone calls through the browser, mobile or desktop, send and receive SMS and MMS messages, and handle short codes.
How-To
Judah Frangipane
Mobile, Messaging
11-08-2013

4 Reasons To Ditch Apache Struts and Embrace JavaScript
API University

Despite a 10-year commitment to (and investment in) Struts, ManageEngine decided to make the move to JavaScript. The organization found that JavaScript instilled more discipline in developers, accelerated page loads, saved development time and provided a mature ecosystem.
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Guest Author
Best Practices
11-08-2013

How to Create a Web Application that Visualizes Twitter Updates Over Time
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As companies, organizations and professionals become more and more interconnected via social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, a new trend is beginning to emerge—social network data visualization. This article shows you how to make a data visualization of your own.
How-To
Guest Author
API, API Management, Library
11-07-2013

XML vs. JSON - A Primer
API University

As more and more Web and mobile applications utilize APIs to drive their respective front ends, performance becomes an emerging concern. XML, long used as a method for exchanging data, is giving way to JSON, now considered the gold standard. But is JSON always the right choice over XML?
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Sean Lindo
API Design
11-07-2013

Government Open Data: How To Get Involved
API University

A workshop on open government data pathways by API Evangelist and current White House Innovation Fellow, Kin Lane, shows there is still plenty of potential for developers, startups and interested citizens to influence the government open data agenda and make use of government data assets. Lane ran the workshop as part of the pre-opening day's workshop series at API Strategy and Practice, being held in San Francisco for the rest of the week.
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Mark Boyd
Government, Events, Open Source
10-24-2013

When SDKs Are Better Than APIs
API University

An emerging trend is taking place where platforms are increasingly letting developers interact with their APIs through SDKs. Layer 7's Scott Morrison comments on why this is happening and when it makes sense, noting that "SDKs make the service subordinate to the client, thus inverting a hierarchy that goes back to the early days of distributed computing."
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Guest Author
SDK
10-04-2013

Advice from Hackathon Winners: How to Plan Your Time and Choose the Right APIs
API University

Hackathon events continue to be a key strategy used to promote API products and services. For developers, they provide an opportunity to work on solutions to real world problems, create new networks of like-minded technologists, connect with potential clients, and provide a chance to hone core developer skills from programming to pitching. Hackathon event planners are encouraged to read ChallengePosts’ top 5 keys to a successful app challenge. For competitors, we have already covered one key piece of advice: book your place in a hackathon early. This year has seen an explosion in growth of hackathon events, but surprisingly, this is yet to outstrip demand for new competition opportunities. But once you have booked in to a competition, how can you best prepare to compete? Many hackathons operate over 24 hours or a weekend. How can you maximize the productive time you spend when the clock of a hackathon starts counting down?
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Mark Boyd
Events, Hacking, Competitions
08-14-2013

Six Ways to Accelerate Time to First "Hello World"
API University

If you want to attract developers to your platform, great API documentation is important. But that's only one piece of the story. The reason clear docs are great is that they enable that first test of an API, the "hello world." Below you'll find six ways to reduce that time to first hello world.
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Adam DuVander
API Design, Developer Relations
07-31-2012

7 Free Geocoding APIs: Google, Bing, Yahoo and MapQuest
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Almost every app that uses a mapping API needs latitude/longitude points. To get geocodes you need to convert an address to a point on the earth. That's where you'll need one of the 54 geocoding APIs in our directory. This post covers seven free geocoders and compares them on several aspects.
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Adam DuVander
Mapping
06-21-2012

REST API Design: Put the "Type" in "Content-Type"
API University

Well-designed REST APIs can be leveraged to create balanced client-server web applications; where the client's responsibilities extend beyond rendering a server-generated HTML doc. This article looks at how to extend REST API design to support the increasing complexity of web applications.
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Mark Masse
API Design
11-18-2011
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