Web
Tim Evko, Sep 24
Web Apps Are the Future
Native mobile apps require storage space, an internet connection, and often need several data-heavy updates. Tim Evko says we should adopt web apps instead.
2 COMMENTs
Web
Javier Sanz, Sep 23
Stripe on Steroids: 11 Ways to Supercharge Your Online Store
Javier Sanz details 11 enhancements for e-commerce, built on top of the Stripe API
Web
Craig Buckler, Sep 09
What the Death of YUI Can Teach Developers
Development of the YUI library has been ceased with immediate effect. Craig discusses the implications for anyone depending on YUI or another library.
Design & UX
Amir Glatt, Aug 28
Website Personalization: Shouldn't Sites be Smarter?
Websites know stuff -- the time, the day, even your location. Website personalization helps you use that data to present better options for your users.
Web
Bruno Skvorc, Aug 22
Diffbot: Repeated Collections and Merged APIs
Bruno Škvorc explains some trickier Diffbot concepts such as API merging, custom domain regexes and repeated custom collections. Tune in to find out more!
Web
Bruno Skvorc, Aug 20
Analyze SitePoint Author Portfolios with Diffbot
Bruno Škvorc guides you through a step by step process of implementing a custom Diffbot API for analyzing SitePoint author profiles
PHP
Shaumik Daityari, Aug 16
APIfy Your Legacy App with Toro
Shaumik Daityari explains how you can build a simple API interface for your legacy application with the Toro router class
3 COMMENTs
PHP
Alexander Cogneau, Aug 04
Fractal: a Practical Walkthrough
Alex explains what Fractal is and how you can use it to keep your JSON output consistent, even after database schema changes
PHP
Bruno Skvorc, Jul 27
Diffbot: Crawling with Visual Machine Learning
Diffbot is a machine learning algorithm which relies on visual information - it parses content visually and determines parts of it as a human would.
4 COMMENTs
PHP
Miguel Ibarra Romero, Jul 25
Using Guzzle with Twitter via Oauth
A tutorial on how you can use OAuth to authenticate Guzzle with Twitter and make it into a Twitter client - uses Guzzle's own Oauth adapter
PHP
Vito Tardia, Jul 23
Best Practices REST API from Scratch – Implementation
Vito Tardia goes in depth with REST API construction from scratch, while adhering to best practices in API design. Learn how to build REST apps like a pro.
Web
Shaumik Daityari, Jul 21
A Web Scraper’s Guide to Kimono
Shaumik Daityari takes a look at Kimono, an app backed by Y Combinator which aims to help users create an API for any website they like.
PHP
Vito Tardia, Jul 21
Best Practices REST API from Scratch - Introduction
Vito Tardia goes in depth with REST API construction from scratch, while adhering to best practices in API design. Learn how to build REST apps like a pro.
PHP
Peter Nijssen, Jul 18
Social Network Authentication: Twitter and Facebook
Peter Nijssen continues his series on social network authentication and demonstrates how you can implement Twitter and Facebook as a login system
Web
Craig Buckler, Jul 04
Is Your Browser Your Next IDE?
Mozilla is placing a web editor directly inside the Firefox development tools. Craig discusses whether it's a great idea or a return to browser bloat?
Web
Tim Evko, Jul 03
The Yo API: The Possibilities Are Endless
An introduction to Yo, a controversial, incredibly simple app with massive potential. Tim Evko explains how to use its API and integrate Yo to your apps.
5 COMMENTs
WordPress
Collins Agbonghama, Jun 27
Creating a World Cup 2014 WordPress Widget
Agbonghama Collins uses a World Cup JSON API to create a up-to-the-minute World Cup 2014 WordPress Widget.
Web
Bruno Skvorc, May 30
Google's BigQuery Provides Free Access to GDELT
Google BigQuery now hosts GDELT - the world's largest dataset on human history - and it's free to use.
PHP
Matthew Setter, May 15
Unit Testing with GuzzlePHP
Matthew Setter talks Unit Testing with GuzzlePHP - mocking responses and enqueuing requests in a spawned NodeJS server
Web
Shaumik Daityari, May 05
2 Cool Things You Can Do with the Facebook Graph API
We use Facebook's Graph API to help us with a Facebook contest and mass-responding to tons of birthday wishes made on your Facebook timeline.
Design & UX
Ivaylo Gerchev, Apr 25
Is Your Product's Documentation Good Enough?
When we speak of UX, we are usually thinking about mom'n'pop users, but sometimes we are talking about UX for our fellow developers. Ivaylo explains.
Web
Louis Lazaris, Apr 24
20 Useful Docs and Guides for Front-End Developers
A roundup of learning tools, documentation, and guidelines for front-end developers.
3 COMMENTs
PHP
Jacek Barecki, Apr 10
How to Speed Up Your App's API Consumption
Jacek Barecki discusses how you can speed up your app's API consumption - make it perform API requests better and faster
5 COMMENTs
PHP
Rakhitha Nimesh, Mar 21
Building a Twitter Hashtag Contest - Creating and Counting Tweets
Rakhitha Nimesh wraps up the series by completing the hashtag contest app with Twitter's API