APIfy Your Legacy App with Toro
PHP
By Shaumik Daityari,
Shaumik Daityari explains how you can build a simple API interface for your legacy application with the Toro router class
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Fractal: a Practical Walkthrough
PHP
By SitePoint Sponsors,
Alex explains what Fractal is and how you can use it to keep your JSON output consistent, even after database schema changes
Diffbot: Crawling with Visual Machine Learning
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Diffbot is a machine learning algorithm which relies on visual information - it parses content visually and determines parts of it as a human would.
Using Guzzle with Twitter via Oauth
PHP
By Miguel Ibarra Romero,
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
Build a REST API from Scratch – Implementation
PHP
By Vito Tardia,
An in depth implementation guide to building a REST API from scratch, while adhering to best practices in API design.
A Web Scraper’s Guide to Kimono
Web
By Shaumik Daityari,
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.
Build a REST API from Scratch – An Introduction
PHP
By Vito Tardia,
Go in depth on building a REST API from scratch, while adhering to best practices in API design. Learn how to build REST apps like a pro.
Social Network Authentication: Twitter and Facebook
PHP
By Peter Nijssen,
Peter Nijssen continues his series on social network authentication and demonstrates how you can implement Twitter and Facebook as a login system
Is Your Browser Your Next IDE?
Programming
By Craig Buckler,
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?
The Yo API: The Possibilities Are Endless
Mobile
By Tim Evko,
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.
Creating a World Cup 2014 WordPress Widget
PHP
By Collins Agbonghama,
Agbonghama Collins uses a World Cup JSON API to create a up-to-the-minute World Cup 2014 WordPress Widget.
Google’s BigQuery Provides Free Access to GDELT
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Google BigQuery now hosts GDELT - the world's largest dataset on human history - and it's free to use.
Unit Testing with GuzzlePHP
PHP
By Matthew Setter,
Matthew Setter talks Unit Testing with GuzzlePHP - mocking responses and enqueuing requests in a spawned NodeJS server
2 Cool Things You Can Do with the Facebook Graph API
Programming
By Shaumik Daityari,
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.
Is Your Product’s Documentation Good Enough?
Programming
By Ivaylo Gerchev,
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.
20 Useful Docs and Guides for Front-End Developers
JavaScript
By Louis Lazaris,
A roundup of learning tools, documentation, and guidelines for front-end developers.