17 clever APIs for every developer whim
Connect with these Internet APIs to add some crucial data, a helpful feature, or a user-pleasing frill to an application.
Stories by Peter Wayner
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Can APIs be copyrighted?
Oracle says yes and Google says no, but who’s right? Here are seven arguments in favour of copyrighting APIs - and seven arguments against.
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16 ways to improve code after it’s ‘finished’
Just because you’ve squeezed out the bugs and delivered a working program doesn’t mean you should relax.
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12 programming mistakes to avoid
The dirty dozen of application development pitfalls - and how to avoid these all-too-common programming blunders.
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10 bad programming habits we secretly love
Breaking the rules can bring a little thrill — and produce better, more efficient code
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Serverless in the cloud: AWS vs. Google Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure
With AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions, a little bit of business logic can go a very long way
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MEAN vs. LAMP for the future of programming
LAMP diehards take note: The flexible simplicity of MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js is no joke
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21 hot programming trends—and 21 going cold
Hot or not? From the web to the motherboard to the training ground, get the scoop on what's in and what's out in app dev
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Angular vs. React: An epic battle for developer mind share
Two of the hottest open source web dev tools butt heads over your next project
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13 ways the cloud has changed (since last you looked)
New services and pricing models make cloud computing more powerful, complex, and cheaper than it was a few short years ago
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Beacons in business: 8 ways to leverage location services
On-campus beacon use can help IT provide local, targeted services and data to employees, temps, clients, and guests
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11 cutting-edge databases worth exploring now
From document-graph hybrids to ‘unkillable’ clusters, the next generation of databases offers intrigue and innovation
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9 ways developers can rebuild trust on the Internet
The Internet is a pit of epistemological chaos. As Peter Steiner posited -- and millions of chuckles peer-reviewed -- in his famous New Yorker cartoon, there's no way to know if you're swapping packets with a dog or the bank that claims to safeguard your money. To make matters worse, Edward Snowden has revealed that the NSA may be squirreling away a copy of some or all of our packets, and given the ease with which it can be done, other countries and a number of rogue hacker groups may very well be following the NSA's lead.
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MEAN vs. LAMP for the future of programming
The transition from cutting-edge curiosity to practical workhorse is not one that many technologies make. Yesterday's precocious upstarts often fail to live up to their Version 0.1 promise -- not so for the technologies that make up the fiercely acronymized MEAN stack.
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17 JavaScript tools breathing new life into old code
Computer languages have a strange shelf life. The most popular among them experience explosive growth driven by herding behavior akin to that of the fashion industry. But when they fade from the spotlight, something odd happens. Instead of disappearing like a pop song or parachute pants, they live on and on and on and on. The impetus behind this quasi-immortality? It's often cheaper to maintain old code than to rewrite it in the latest, trendiest language.
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