Flinging APIs in the Highlands

<>p>Gareth Rushgrove has been talking a lot about API design; a true art amid the science of CSci. He gave a presentation at the highland fling (our own Christian Heilmann was there too) and starts out by walking through thoughts on the various ways that we (or robots, or rabbits) interact with the Web.

Then he gets on to the API design where he takes a look at some of the popular ones (e.g. Flickr, Twitter) and tries to find some general truths:

Make Your API

Prodable
Hackable
Multilingual
Open
Transparent
Obvious

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I had the pleasure of seeing this talk and both Gareth and Christian covered some similar topics, but in different ways. I definetly recommend checking out the slides
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