While Ruby has Rails and Python has Django, the dominant application development framework for Node has yet to be established. But, there is a powerful contender gaining steam: LoopBack, an open source API framework built by StrongLoop, the creators of Express. Let’s take a closer look at LoopBack and it’s capabilities by turning everything into […]
Category: APIs
Requests’ Two APIs
Kenneth Reitz’s excellent Requests library has been praised, rightfully, for its excellent API. In fact, its API is so good that it’s been praised in a literary context, as well as by almost every programmer who has come across it. There is no question that this API is one of the best you can find […]
The Importance of API-Oriented Design
Many programmers (or coders, or software engineers, or computer wizards, or whatever term you would like to use; the arguments had over this could and probably will fill a whole blog post on their own) find themselves involved to a greater or lesser extent in the development of libraries and programming utilities for the use […]
Help Improve Plone’s API Documentation
Sponsor my trip to the Plone Doccom Sprint in California I’m travelling from Washington, DC, USA to Mountain View, CA, USA June 26 – 29 to participate in the 2007 Plone Doccomm Sprint. My main focus will be updating Plone’s online API documentation. If you are interested in seeing this done and would like to […]