Rarely do we get to build applications from scratch. Rather, we frequently have to make improvements on existing systems. Coursera has built on their existing REST APIs. Here’s how. Declarative GraphQL: Adding GraphQL to our REST APIs – Bryan Kane Your browser does not support iframes. Coursera has over 500 REST APIs in production. We’re…
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Using The AvantLink API To Streamline Your Affiliate Efforts
Justin Ball CTO AtomicJolt GearSnyper, SnapLinker, SnapSearcher http://www.justinball.com It Would Be Really Cool If… Open All The Things! Open Source APIs Open Content Open Source Moved from installs to services Developers read the code. Create better integrations Result is a healthy community of applications Open Content Kahn Academy MIT Open Courseware Creative Commons Users win…
Authorize.net – User authentication failed due to invalid authentication values
So you’ve worked hard to integrate your website with authorize.net and now you’re ready to turn it on and make the big bucks. You run your first real transaction and get: User authentication failed due to invalid authentication values. code=”E00007″ or This account has not been given the permission(s) required for this request. or E00007…
FamilySearch Developer Webinar
I just got an invite to a FamilySearch Webinar. I imagine you are supposed to be a member of the developer group to attend, but I doubt they would throw you out. Here’s the details: FamilySearch Developer WebinarJoseph Smith Memorial Building (JSMB) 5th Floor, West Lobby Conference Room 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Agenda: Introduce…
Family Search API
If these posts don’t make sense sorry. They are for my notes. API is based on REST. A lot of data is sensitive so they use SSL to secure data transfer. Prefer XML elements over XML attributes. Everything is UTF-8 encoded. Right now user access is limited to LDS members. That is interesting. I guess…
Ruby fs-api
I am in the Ruby-fs API presentation now. Funding for the library came from USFamilyTree.com. It is REST based. Data model is: Person Person has many Assertions Assertion has one Contributor, Citation(not yet implemented), Note Each person has a lot of data associated with them so you don’t want to be parsing xml data on…
Family Search Write
We’re back from lunch. I had a great chat with Alan Braverman the CTO & founder of Geni. They are doing some cool things by connecting living people with their families and to the larger family graph. They also let you upload photos and other digital assets then assemble that into a timeline. Eventually you…
Family Tree Read
What do we read out of family search? Person Information Search Match Authorities Data – places LDS Ordinance Information Objects available in the new FamilySearch Person Search Data Contributor Information Place Standardization Data Can output XML, JSON, and XML-FastInfoset. Request can be gzipped if client supported. Locate a resource via NFS Id – ‘KWCD-QBC’, Ancestral…
Creative Commons Opens Legal Documents
A couple of developers from Creative Commons were at the code sprint last week. It is fun to interact with guys who are making the world a better place. Creative Commons latest move was to make it easy to get to 1.8 million pages of case law. Here’s some more information and ReadWriteWeb.. This could…