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BlogsTags > apiFrom JavaScript to Declarative MarkupBy Simon St. LaurentMay 22, 2013 Web architecture separates structured content (markup), presentation (style), and behavior (JavaScript). As recently as a decade ago, many developers worked in all three, but the years since Ajax arrived have brought more specialization. The rise of JavaScript in particular has … Exploring Hypermedia with Mike AmundsenBy Simon St. LaurentMay 16, 2013 The Web’s flexibility has helped it to survive and thrive, pushing well beyond the browser-based universe where it first showed its promise. While I’ve spent most of my time working with the HTML/CSS/JavaScript side, the HTTP side of the original … A Matter of SemanticsBy Mike AmundsenMay 16, 2013 Messages on the Web carry three levels of information: Structure Semantics, Protocol Semantics, and Application Semantics. No matter the implementation style, all three of these are needed for any successful communication between client and server. This threesome (S-P-A) forms the … Masking the complexity of the machineBy Jon BrunerFebruary 15, 2013 The Internet has thrived on abstraction and modularity. Web services hide their complexity behind APIs and standardized protocols, and these clean interfaces make it easy to turn them into modules of larger systems that can take advantage of the most … Visualizing book productionBy Adam HydeFebruary 4, 2013 Data visualization is one of the hot topics of the last year or two. So what does this offer publishing and book production? Open data activists in particular have been lobbying governments for access to databases which they use to … A Publisher’s Job Is to Provide a Good API for BooksBy Hugh McGuireFebruary 1, 2013 Intro Here is a radical statement: A publisher’s job is to provide good APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for their books. Now that almost all books are made into digital products (that is, ebooks), good publishers of the future will be … ValoBox: TOC Startup Showcase FinalistBy Kat MeyerJanuary 29, 2013 We’re giving our readers a chance to get to know our TOC Startup Showcase Finalists a little bit better before the big showdown in NYC. We’re featuring the startups with a personality profile here on our website. Our next profile … Buy once, sync anywhereBy Oliver BrooksDecember 3, 2012 This article by Oli Brooks is a preview to the the Buy once, sync anywhere session he’s part of at TOC NY 2013 in February. Use the discount code below to register for the event and learn more about Oli’s vision … Creating reader community with open APIsBy Leonhard DobuschNovember 15, 2012 I spoke at the “Frankfurt Digital Night” at this year’s Frankfurt Book fair, making essentially three points (see slides embedded below): first, publishing requires – and has always required – a commitment to creating and courting communities of readers. Second, there … Open API: The Blanche DuBois economyBy Adam HydeNovember 13, 2012 ‘Open API’ is a well-known term that seldom gets challenged. It passes in conversation as an agreed-upon good. However it should be recognised that there is no such thing as an Open API – it is a euphemism for a specific … The many sides to shipping a great software project
By Andy OramSeptember 9, 2012 Chris Vander Mey, CEO of Scaled Recognition, and author of a new O’Reilly book, Shipping Greatness, lays out in this video some of the deep lessons he learned during his years working on some very high-impact and high-priority projects at … ASP.NET web API rocksBy Rachel RoumeliotisAugust 28, 2012 Glenn Block (@gblock) is an O’Reilly author and senior program manager on the Windows Azure Team at Microsoft. We sat down recently to talk about the newly released ASP.NET Web API Framework, which he helped develop, and why it will … End of a fishing expeditionBy Mike LoukidesJune 1, 2012 As the Oracle v Google trial shows, we get proper rulings on copyrights and patents when judges and jurors understand the technology they're ruling on. Microsoft opens up April 17, 2012 Microsoft seems to be embracing open source more and more. What does this tell us about the company's near-term future? Top Stories: March 19-23, 2012 
By Mac SlocumMarch 23, 2012 This week on O'Reilly: StreetEasy's Sebastian Delmont explained why his team left Google Maps behind, we looked at the ins and outs of the Dart programming platform, and Jim Stogdill considered the alternatives to always-on living. Four short links: 22 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 22, 2012 Stamen Watercolour Maps -- I saw a preview of this a week or two ago and was in awe. It is truly the most beautiful thing I've seen a computer do. It's not just a clever hack, it's art. Genius. And they're CC-licensed. Screens Up Close -- gorgeous microscope pictures of screens, showing how great the iPad's retina display... Why StreetEasy rolled its own maps March 19, 2012 Google's decision to start charging for its Maps API is leading some companies to mull other options. In this interview, StreetEasy's Sebastian Delmont explains why and how his team made a change. Four short links: 15 March 2012
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 15, 2012 atomize.js -- a distributed Software Transactional Memory implementation in Javascript. mari0 -- not only a great demonstration of what's possible in web games, but also a clever mashup of Mario and Portal. Lessons From BerkeleyDB -- chapter on BerkeleyDB's design, architecture, and development philosophy from Architecture of Open Source Applications. (via Pete Warden) An API Ontology -- I currently... Profile of the Data Journalist: The API ArchitectBy Alex HowardMarch 5, 2012 To learn more about the people who are redefining the practice computer-assisted reporting, in some cases, building the newsroom stack for the 21st century, Radar conducted a series of email interviews with data journalists during the 2012 NICAR Conference. Profile of the Data Journalist: The API ArchitectBy Alex HowardMarch 5, 2012 To learn more about the people who are redefining the practice computer-assisted reporting, in some cases, building the newsroom stack for the 21st century, Radar conducted a series of email interviews with data journalists during the 2012 NICAR Conference. Profile of the Data Journalist: The API Architect
By Alex HowardMarch 5, 2012 To learn more about the people who are redefining the practice computer-assisted reporting, in some cases, building the newsroom stack for the 21st century, Radar conducted a series of email interviews with data journalists during the 2012 NICAR Conference. Six API predictions for 2012By Anant JhingranDecember 19, 2011 Among the key API trends to watch in 2012: enterprise APIs will go mainstream, data-centric APIs will become common, and APIs will need to be optimized for mobile apps and developers. Top Stories: November 21-25, 2011
By Mac SlocumNovember 25, 2011 This week on O'Reilly: Alex Howard explored the implications of SOPA and PROTECT IP, Jonathan Stark looked back on his Starbucks card experiment, and Terry Jones explained how APIs can help publishers. Strata Week: What happens when 200,000 hard drives work together? September 1, 2011 IBM takes data storage to a whole new level (120 petabytes, to be exact), Infochimps' new API tries to make life easier for geo developers, and the "Internet of people" keeps an eye on Hurricane Irene. Strata Week: What happens when 200,000 hard drives work together?By Audrey WattersSeptember 1, 2011 IBM takes data storage to a whole new level (120 petabytes, to be exact), Infochimps' new API tries to make life easier for geo developers, and the "Internet of people" keeps an eye on Hurricane Irene. Four short links: 1 September 2011
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 1, 2011 A Chart Engine -- Android charting engine. The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight -- we are driven to create and form groups and then believe others are wrong just because they are others. Urban Mapping API -- add rich geographic data to web and non-web applications. Tell Us A Story, Victoria -- a university science story-telling contest.... Scaling Google+
By Alex HowardAugust 2, 2011 In a recent interview, Google's Joseph Smarr discussed what he's learned from Google+ thus far. Specifically: how quickly the social network has scaled, the importance of the user interface, and future plans for a Google+ API. Four short links: 13 June 2011
By Nat TorkingtonJune 13, 2011 AIRPrint -- prototype box scans a fingerprint from six feet away. (via Greg Linden) Squishy Circuits -- teaching electronic circuits with conductive and insulating playdough. (via Hacker News) GraphLab -- alternative take on Map-Reduce, called Update-Sync, where tasks run on connected sets of nodes rather than on one node at a time. Tower Bridge Closed -- the @towerbridge account... Four short links: 18 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 18, 2011 The Future of the Library (Seth Godin) -- We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime. Passionate railing against a straw man. The library profession... Winners of the writable API competitionBy Terry JonesMay 13, 2011 We ran a developer contest to see what folks could do with O'Reilly's new "writable" API. Today we're announcing the winners. Winners of the writable API competition May 13, 2011 We ran a developer contest to see what folks could do with O'Reilly's new "writable" API. Today we're announcing the winners. Four short links: 11 May 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMay 11, 2011 webshell -- command-line tool for debugging/exploring APIs, open sourced (Apache v2) and written in node.js. (via Sean Coates) sample -- command-line filter for random sampling of input. Useful when you've got heaps of data and want to run your algorithms on a random sample of it. (via Scott Vokes) Yale Offers Open Access To PD Materials in Collections --... Shopping for APIs April 22, 2011 How can a marketplace for APIs help developers tackle discovery and distribution? Mashape CEO Augusto Marietti explores that question in this interview. Uniform APIs for the data web 
By Jon UdellApril 20, 2011 What if blogs had come of age in an era when a uniform kind of API was expected? We could then ask questions of blogs in the same way we could ask questions of event services. A writable API for O'Reilly March 21, 2011 Fluidinfo's new O'Reilly API contains information from O'Reilly, Amazon, Google Books, LibraryThing, and GoodReads. But most importantly, anyone can "write" their own information to the book and author objects. A writable API competitionBy Terry JonesMarch 21, 2011 We're launching a developer contest to see what folks can do with O'Reilly's new "writeable" API. Find out what you'll need to get started. 3 ways APIs can benefit publishers
By Mac SlocumMarch 21, 2011 APIs aren't just for tech companies. In this post we look at three significant areas where publishers can benefit from releasing their own APIs. 3 ways APIs can benefit publishersBy Mac SlocumMarch 21, 2011 APIs aren't just for tech companies. In this post we look at three significant areas where publishers can benefit from releasing their own APIs. A writable API for O'ReillyBy Terry JonesMarch 21, 2011 Fluidinfo's new O'Reilly API contains information from O'Reilly, Amazon, Google Books, LibraryThing, and GoodReads. But most importantly, anyone can "write" their own information to the book and author objects. Developer Week in Review 
By James TurnerMarch 16, 2011 In the latest Developer Week in Review: the iPhone fell to attackers, Twitter shunned their developers, and the Internet proved not to be as robust as one might hope. Four short links: 4 March 2011
By Nat TorkingtonMarch 4, 2011 JSARToolKit -- Javascript port of the Flash AR Toolkit. I'm intrigued because the iPad2 has rear-facing camera and gyroscopes up the wazoo, and (of course) no Flash. (via Mike Shaver on Twitter) Android Patterns -- set of design patterns for Android apps. (via Josh Clark on Twitter) Preview of Up and Running with Node.js (O'Reilly) -- Tom Hughes-Croucher's new... The future of publishing is writeableBy Terry JonesDecember 17, 2010 Terry Jones envisons a future in which we step beyond the default of read-only publishing via traditional containers and APIs. Data itself will become social, and we'll be able to personalize arbitrarily. The future of publishing is writeableBy Terry JonesDecember 17, 2010 Terry Jones envisons a future in which we step beyond the default of read-only publishing via traditional containers and APIs. Data itself will become social, and we'll be able to personalize arbitrarily. The black market for data October 7, 2010 In today's world of open social media APIs, there's a rift between what publishers consider open versus what data consumers are demanding. That discrepancy is at the heart of data's black market. The state of mapping APIs September 7, 2010 Map APIs took off in 2005, and during the ensuing years the whole notion of maps has changed. Where once they were slick add-ons, map functionality is now a necessary -- and expected -- tool. In this piece, Adam DuVander looks at the current state of mapping and he explains how mobile devices, third-party services and ease of use are shaping the map development world. Four short links: 27 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 27, 2010 Working Audio Data Demos -- the new Firefox has a very sweet audio data API and some nifty demos like delay pedals, a beat detector (YouTube) and a JavaScript text-to-speech generator. (via jamesaduncan on Twitter) Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright Holders: Evidence from the Google Book Search Litigation -- [T]he revenues and profits of... Four short links: 18 August 2010
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 18, 2010 BBC Dimensions -- brilliant work, a fun site that lets you overlay familiar plcaes with famous and notable things so you can get a better sense of how large they are. Example: the Colossus of Rhodes straddling O'Reilly HQ, the Library of Alexandria vs the Google campus, and New Orleans Mardi Gras began at the headquarters of Fred Phelps's... Data as a serviceBy Mike LoukidesJuly 27, 2010 With "data as a service" APIs like InfoChimps, and embeddable data components like Google Public Data Explorer and WolframAlpha Widgets, we're seeing the democratization of data and data visualization: new ways to access data, new ways to play with data, and new ways to communicate the results to others. Four short links: 28 May 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMay 28, 2010 The Intuition Behind the Fisher-Yates Shuffle -- this is a simple algorithm to randomize a list of things, but most people are initially puzzled that it is more efficient than a naive shuffling algorithm. This is a nice explanation of the logic behind it. Wikipedia and Inherent Open Source Bias -- a specific case of what I think of... Four short links: 25 May 2010
By Nat TorkingtonMay 25, 2010 Lending Merry-Go-Round -- these guys have been Australia's sharpest satire for years, filling the role of the Daily Show. Here they ask some strong questions about the state of Europe's economies ... (via jdub on Twitter) What's Powering the Guardian's Content API -- Scala and Solr/Lucene on EC2 is the short answer. The long answer reveals the details of... 1 to 50 of 109 Next Stay Connected
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