If you read my blog, you probably know that I am a bit of a geek about URLs. The “Universal Resource Locator” is a fundamental principle of the internet and are responsible for a lot of interesting features of the information superhighway. URLs make it possible to navigate from page to page, to change the …
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You might be new to the whole idea of “bots” or acronyms like REST, API, HTTP, and cURL. And you probably don’t know how to code your way out of a wet paper bag. But this doesn’t mean you cannot or should not get your hands dirty and have a little fun making a customized little …
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In the same way that user interfaces allow us to interact with an application, Application Programming Interfaces (API) allow applications to interact with applications. How do API’s work? This is best illustrated by example. If you have ever witnessed a Twitter bot randomly like or retweet your tweet, you have seen an API in action. …
If you can remember your elementary school English lessons, you might recall learning how to format postal addresses so you could send a letter or navigate yourself to a particular destination. Today, most of us navigate to Web addresses far more often than street addresses and yet we no sense about how web addresses work, what …
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