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Recent Notions

Our ramblings on website design, web application development, programming, scalability, code frameworks, or whatever.

How Not to Build an API

published to Web Development by Darcy Hastings on Tue 15 Jun 2010 at 10:26 a.m.

We recently wrote some code to interact with an online service via their API. The service provider handles donation gifts and donor records. Their API is lacking in several areas. I want to highlight some of the more problematic issues.

Data Passing Madness
Normally what you find with an API ...

Don't Call Me a "Techie"

published to Rants by Darcy Hastings on Sun 18 Apr 2010 at 11:03 a.m.

The word "techie" gets tossed around these days as if it were a proper designation. It's not. I think it's a derogatory term which indicates that the person is ignorant of what their programmer, web developer, or IT professional actually does for a living.

Wikipedia, in part, defines ...