API Evolution (Page 12)

Writings about API Design, OpenAPI, HTTP and related topics.

The Simplest Possible ASP.NET Web API Template

I recently needed to create a new Web API project for some content I'm working on for a talk.  I decided I might as well use the ASP.NET Web API Template to get started.

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Dot Net Fringe

The last few days I spent at the DotNetFringe conference in Portland.  Considering this was the first time this conference has been run it was executed spectacularly well.

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Solving Dropbox's URL Problems

A recent post on the Dropbox developer's blog post talked about the challenges of constructing URLs due to the challenges of encoding parameters.  They proposed the idea of using encoded JSON to embed parameters in URLs. I believe URI Templates offer a much easier and cleaner way to address this issue.  This blog posts shows how.

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