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Use A Weather API? You Could Win Big!
Do you use or plan to use a weather API in the near future? If so, Earth Networks would love to hear your thoughts on the landscape of Weather APIs on the market. Your feedback may help guide improvements in weather APIs and every survey respondent willl get a chance to win an Amazon gift card.
4 days ago
What is an API Fragment?
Reusable APIs and API fragments are a critical factor in closing the IT delivery gap that arises when there are too many IT projects that need to be delivered with too few IT resources. Instead of starting every project from scratch, you can reuse fragments and APIs to accelerate project delivery.
08-09-2017
Add Programmable Voice to Your Node.js Apps with Express
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Nexmo Application and Voice APIs to create a text-to-speech outbound phone call securely and then how to receive inbound calls by implementing a Webhook. This tutorial assumes you are working with a Unix or Linux-based operating system.
08-09-2017
How to Make your Own Zillow Using the Onboard Developer Platform
As the largest national real estate portal, Zillow has perfected the art of attracting and engaging online real estate consumers. If you are a developer looking to do the same, you can use the Onboard Developer Platform to recreate and improve upon some of Zillow's most popular features.
08-03-2017
MapQuest Announces Release of MapQuest.js: An Interactive JavaScript Mapping Library
We're excited to announce the release of the successor to our Leaflet Plugins, MapQuest.js! Built with Leaflet v1.1.0 integration, MapQuest.js provides all of the power of the MapQuest geospatial platform combined with the elegance of the open-source Leaflet mapping library.
07-17-2017
MuleSoft Announces Open Source API Console v4
MuleSoft has announced the release of version 4.0 of API console, their open source API documentation tool that generates web documentation based on RAML documents. It can be run as a standalone web application or integrated into your own website. This article looks at the release highlights.
07-03-2017
How to Add SMS to Your Node.js Apps with Express API University
The Nexmo SMS API allows you to send and receive a high volume of SMS anywhere in the world. Once you get your virtual phone number, you can use the API to manage outbound messages and inbound messages. In this article, you will learn how to send and receive SMS messages with Node.js and Express.
06-29-2017
Introduction to the eversign Electronic Signature API
You've probably signed documents electronically before, perhaps for a real estate transaction or legal agreement. apilayer's eversign provides the security and features you're used to, along with an API for building more sophisticated integrations. This article goes through working with the API.
05-30-2017
Open API and RAML: Better Together
In the world of API specs, RAML is a leading way to model API specifications while OAS (formerly Swagger) is the most common format for describing APIs. MuleSoft has joined the Open API initiative, believing that working together will improve both specs and afford value to the entire ecosystem.
04-28-2017
How PactSafe Gives Developers Innovative eSignature Alternatives
Developers are often asked to add eSignature capabilities to apps they are building. DocuSigning contracts in digital document form is the common way to do this, but contracts can be executed by email, SMS, click-through, and more. This article shows you how this can be done with the PactSafe API.
03-16-2017
How Pantheon Enables Services to Become Truly Multitenant
Pantheon offers elastic hosting and a container-based Website management platform for Drupal and WordPress sites. This article looks at how Apigee, an API management company turned to Pantheon's Website Management Platform to ensure that its solutions were truly multitenant.
03-03-2017
How The Streetlayer API Lets You do Real-time, International Address Validation and Autocomplete
Streetlayer is a white label API for real time international address validation, autocomplete and geocoding. This tutorial introduces the streetlayer API including ensuring high-quality data by validating addresses, delivering address suggestions and determining coordinates of street addresses.
03-02-2017
Upcoming Webinar: How to Build Better Products Together
On March 3, 2017, Capital One's Naveed Anwar and ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind, will host a joint webinar to discuss how the DevExchange team has knocked down traditional barriers in FinTech with an open developer platform. This article looks at DevExchange's journey and it's future.
02-28-2017
Why QuickBooks Online Uses Webhooks
Webhooks have been one of the top requested features by Intuit developers, as apps that integrate with QuickBooks Online need to respond swiftly to current data as that data becomes available. This article explains what Webhooks are and how to configure them for your QuickBooks Online app
01-26-2017
How Intuit Uses OpenID 2.0 to Implement Single Sign On
Single Sign On is a mechanism that creates the feeling of a single ecosystem across multiple services for a user by sharing key elements of an identity. SSO can provide users with a better experience and can result in cost savings. This article looks at how Intuit implements OpenID 2.0 as their SSO.
01-18-2017
How Connect IQ Helps You Tame the Wearable Wild West
Throughout the history of computer platforms, each evolution has brought a reduction in size. With each evolution developers have needed to learn to adapt to the new strengths and limitations. Wearable software platforms have emerged, and with them have come new strengths and limitations.
12-19-2016
How the SkyWatch App was Built with Connect IQ
As with all app platforms, the value of Connect IQ is built around the quality and quantity of apps in the system from third-party app developers. This post, from the creator of the SkyWatch app, looks at the experience of developing a wearable app using the Connect IQ platform.
12-12-2016
How Connect IQ Brings OAuth to Wearables
Most web services available to developers have been inaccessible to Connect IQ developers because they use OAUTH to provide access control, and this functionality did not exist in Connect IQ. Connect IQ 2 added new OAUTH APIs opening up Connect IQ apps to many of the APIs available on the web.
12-05-2016
How Xert for Connect IQ Gives Athletes Real-Time Views of their Power
Xert from Baron Biosystems is a software suite that provides in-depth power data analysis for athletes. Baron Biosystems has leveraged the Connect IQ platform to bring their cycling experience to athletes, providing them with real-time power and training data to track fitness improvement.
11-28-2016
How to Record Application Metrics with Garmin Connect IQ
This is the third part of a three-part post about creating a yoga app for the active lifestyle using the Garmin Connect IQ app system; part 1 focused on page layout, while part 2 focuses on page flow and developing metrics for the app, and part 3 focuses on recording those metrics.
11-14-2016