Archive for the “API” Category


May 29 2007

Mashing Up with User-centric Identity

Posted by: Sergey Chernyshev in API, Identity

Presentation about Identity and AOL OpenAuth.

Presented by John Panzer and Praveen Alavilli from AOL at Web 2.0 Expo on April 18th, 2007.

Mashing Up with User-centric Identity

See it at TechPresentations.org: Mashing Up with User-centric Identity.

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Jan 22 2007

YUI Menu Control

Posted by: Sergey Chernyshev in API, JavaScript, PDF, Slides, Video, Yahoo

Presentation by Todd Kloots about YUI Menu Control (Video, PDF slides).

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Aug 31 2006

How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters

Posted by: Sergey Chernyshev in API, PDF, Slides

Presentation by Joshua Bloch, Google Inc. (Sun previously, author of Effective Java) at Library-Centric Software Design LCSD’05 on Sunday, October 16, 2005 (slides in PDF)

How to Design a Good<br /> API and Why it Matters

Interesting quotes:

  • Public APIs are forever - one chance to get it right
  • Good code is modular–each module has an API
  • Thinking in terms of APIs improves code quality
  • Easy to use, even without documentation
  • Don’t let implementation details “leak” into API
  • Make classes and members as private as possible
  • and more …

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