On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Jason Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. Has anybody written an API before and do you have any standards/guides > I could read? > Check the "biggies" like Twitter, Netflix, etc. to get some good ideas about creating good REST APIs. This is the seminal paper about REST: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm And I haven't read it but I've heard good things about this book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920021575.do > > 2. What's a good way to manage API keys? Should each user get their own > API key? > Yes. -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://blog.mattwoodward.com identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
