Swagger

Speaking of APIs and documentation in the previous post: Swagger is a specification and complete framework implementation for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services. Describe your API in a JSON file like this, and Swagger will turn it into that. Alternatively you can provide your project with Swagger Annotations and then run it …

Your API Consumers Aren’t Who You Think They Are

Traditionally, you’d expect most inquiries about APIs to be very technical: How can I upload bulk attachments with multipart POST bodies? Increasingly, questions are becoming more like amateur Stack Overflow questions: How do I hook the Microsoft Access into the REST? The users behind such questions aren’t tech-illiterate, they simply have no idea how to …

Acko.net redesign

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Today’s flight on WebGL Air will take us high above the cloud. Those of you sitting in Chrome class, on the desktop side of the plane, will have the clearest view. Internet Explorer class passengers may turn to their in-seat entertainment system instead. Passengers are reminded to …