Nuclear powered Raphael Mudge has announced on the After The Deadline blog a couple of interesting developments the first being the removal of API Keys. Using the service no longer requires users to register with the site. However, if you need to use AtD in a commercial environment, you are encouraged to use the open source software edition of AtD. The post covers a couple of other announcements such as an update to the bbPress plugin, AtD speaking more languages and the WordPress plugin now being available in more translations. Seems like every week Raphael has something exciting to tell us regarding AtD which is a good thing!
If you are a professional blogger or running a website, then one way to build a community is to have APIs on your website. It is very important in today’s world to have APIs because it is one way for websites to communicate with each other. Facebook, Twitter, Digg etc all have APIs available to be added to websites. API-Status is a website which monitors API’s for their up time.
As you can see in the image the website shows if the API service is operating normally of it there is a downtime. For instance in the above image; GeoNames API is facing service disruption.
Clicking on one of the APIs link displays current service performance by country, a average graphical display of the daily downtime. (see image below)
There is a total of 30 APIs which are being monitored and I could not really think of any popular API which was not included.
This website will a great use for webmasters or developers to refer to as quick reference point for a API’s performance. It can also be a great way for developers to see how API’s perform based on country specific locations. Do try it out and drop in you comments with your views and opinions.
Here’s a simple and short tutorial on how to retrieve Twitter trends. We will be using PHP and Twitter’s API to retrieve the latest trends. You can publish the trends on your website, blog or any application you are working on. So, let’s get started.
Twitter has made trends available to anyone via API calls. The [...]
Checkfront™ is an online Availability, Reservation and Booking Platform. This plugin connects your Wordpress site to your Checkfront account, and provides a powerful real time booking interface within your site.
You can configure Checkfront to manage your inventory, packages, accept reservations and process payments.
Features
* Display availability, take reservations, bookings and process payments online within your website.
* Multi-currency, multi-gateway payment processing.
* Advanced rate, pricing and tax configurations.
* Detailed analytics and reporting.
If you have a web service, you can add functionality to it by allowing other programs to access to your service through the use of APIs or Application Programming Interface. The following article talks about two popular types of APIs using SOAP and REST. It explains in detail the basics of API programming. It’s a [...]
Fresh off the dev table is our newest plugin, Post Google Map. This plugins allows you to add addresses to posts and pages. These addresses are then plotted on a google map in your sidebar when viewing the post or page! It’s a great way to localize your posts, news, stories, events, etc.
Hovering over a plot will display the title of the post, address, and also a thumbnail from the post if any images exist. Easily add and delete a single or multiple addresses to each post.
Viewing a single post displays only addresses attached to that post/page, viewing any other page will show the most recent plots across your entire site. You can also set a custom title and description for each address saved. If no title or description is entered the post title and excerpt will be used.
Installation
Upload the post-google-map folder to the plugins directory in your WordPress or WPMU installation
Nuclear powered Raphael Mudge has announced on the After The Deadline blog a couple of interesting developments the first being the removal of API Keys. Using the service no longer requires users to register with the site. However, if you need to use AtD in a commercial environment, you are encouraged to use the open source software edition of AtD. The post covers a couple of other announcements such as an update to the bbPress plugin, AtD speaking more languages and the WordPress plugin now being available in more translations. Seems like every week Raphael has something exciting to tell us regarding AtD which is a good thing!
