Safaricom is migrating M-PESA servers from Germany to Kenya, promising improved stability and faster transactions, while developers hope for better API access.
A tutorial on building a Lumen microservice that generates Heroku-style random server names using a thesaurus API.
Explores Apple's Force Touch technology, its APIs for OS X developers, and potential applications for future iOS implementation.
Analysis of London bus arrival times using Python, Matplotlib, and TfL data to test if buses come in pairs.
A tutorial on using Ruby and the Mechanize gem to scrape personal fitness data from MyFitnessPal when API access is unavailable.
RSiteCatalyst v1.4.3 release notes: bug fixes, new data feed monitoring functions, and internal prep for a new AdobeDW package.
A guide to using Twitter.jl, a Julia package for interacting with the Twitter API, covering authentication and basic functions.
Release notes for RSiteCatalyst 1.4.2, an R package for Adobe Analytics, detailing bug fixes and a new API feature.
A developer explains how to refactor repetitive Julia code for a Twitter API package using metaprogramming techniques to reduce lines and improve maintainability.
Explores the design decisions and expert discussions behind Java 8's Optional type, contrasting them with the author's own views.
A look back at a 2004 hack using Domino's public API to order pizza from the command line, illustrating the power of open APIs.
RSiteCatalyst v1.4 is released with breaking changes, new Pathing/Fallout reports, OAuth support, and a cleaner codebase.
A developer recounts his 12-year career journey at Amazon, starting from his early interest in their web services API to joining the company.
A proposal for a new HTTP verb, VALIDATE, to enable safe, idempotent server-side validation from client-side forms without side effects.
A developer reflects on mastering multiple languages after encountering a tricky JSON parsing issue in R while maintaining a CRAN package.
A technical comparison of static map solutions from Google, OpenStreetMap, Nokia HERE, and Yandex for web performance optimization.
Former Mozilla CEO discusses the 'network problem' of user data, privacy, and economic value, proposing solutions post-resignation.
Microsoft releases Service Pack 1 for SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 2013 with bug fixes and improvements.
Introducing 'hyper', a pure-Python HTTP/2.0 library designed as a drop-in replacement for Python's standard http.client.
RSiteCatalyst v1.3 adds regex search, Realtime API support, and configurable request timing for the Adobe Analytics R package.
