API Evolution

REST vs RPC

Verbs are just not that evil

Published on December 2, 2023

The Majesty of Trees

Grow your APIs the natural way

Published on January 3, 2023

Anatomy of HTTP API design

Divide and conquer by breaking down the elements of API design.

Published on December 11, 2021

The value of blogging

Am I back?

Published on October 12, 2021

Optimizing for the Speed of Light

Published on February 18, 2019

When Opportunity meets Momentum

Published on June 20, 2018

OpenAPI is not what I thought

Published on September 20, 2017

HTTP Pattern Index2

Published on August 22, 2017

HTTP Pattern Index

Published on August 21, 2017

HTTP Pattern: Factory

Published on August 21, 2017

HTTP Pattern: Window

Published on August 21, 2017

HTTP Pattern: Bouncer

Published on August 21, 2017

HTTP Pattern: Whack-a-mole

Published on August 21, 2017

HTTP Pattern: Miniput

Published on August 21, 2017

HTTP Pattern: Alias

Published on August 21, 2017

HTTP Pattern: Discovery

Published on August 21, 2017

HTTP Pattern: Progress

Published on August 21, 2017

HTTP Pattern: Builder

Published on August 21, 2017

HTTP Pattern: Bucket

Published on August 21, 2017

RPC vs REST is not in the URL

Published on September 20, 2016

Back to my core

Published on June 22, 2016

Azure API Management Resources

Published on January 13, 2016

API description languages are a dead end

Published on January 1, 2016

A Fresh Coat Of REST Paint On A SOAP Stack

Published on November 9, 2015

In The Mood For HTTP - Episode 3

Published on October 27, 2015

In The Mood For HTTP - Open Q&A

Published on October 21, 2015

Caching is hard, draw me a picture–Updated

Published on October 16, 2015

302 - Found

Published on October 9, 2015

Navigating DRY IETF Specs

Published on October 2, 2015

There Is Almost Nothing to See Here

Published on September 28, 2015

Service Discovery : Redux

Published on September 4, 2015

Service Discovery, The Easy Way

Published on September 3, 2015

Everything is Going to be… 308 Permanent Redirect

Published on June 23, 2015

The Simplest Possible ASP.NET Web API Template

Published on May 22, 2015

Dot Net Fringe

Published on April 18, 2015

Solving Dropbox's URL Problems

Published on April 10, 2015

API Design Notes: Smart Paging

Published on March 30, 2015

Are You Or Your Customers Leaking Your API Keys?

Published on March 23, 2015

Share Your Code, Not Your API Keys

Published on March 20, 2015

Don't Design A Query String You Will One Day Regret

Published on February 18, 2015

Hypermedia, past, present and future

Published on January 22, 2015

Where, oh where, does the API key go?

Published on December 17, 2014

Constructing URLs the easy way

Published on December 3, 2014

Runscope: Notifications from the Traffic Inspector

Published on November 28, 2014

The Web API business layer anti-pattern

Published on November 26, 2014

REST–The Chocolate Chip Cookie Analogy

Published on November 25, 2014

Continuous Integration, Deployment and Testing of your Web APIs with AppVeyor and Runscope

Published on November 25, 2014

Microsoft: Open source and cross-platform all the things

Published on November 12, 2014

Add Runscope logging to your ASP.NET Web API in minutes

Published on October 27, 2014

Xamarin Evolve

Published on October 16, 2014

RESTFest 2014

Published on October 3, 2014

Vermont Code Camp

Published on September 24, 2014

Implementing Conditional Request Handling for your API

Published on September 17, 2014

Code Camp NYC

Published on September 15, 2014

Using Etags and Last-modified headers to improve performance with HTTP conditional requests

Published on September 3, 2014

HTTP in depth

Published on September 3, 2014

Caching resources with query strings

Published on September 2, 2014

A drive by review of the Uber API

Published on August 20, 2014

Centralized exception handling using a ASP.NET Web API MessageHandler

Published on August 6, 2014

These 8 lines of code can make debugging your ASP.Net Web API a little bit easier.

Published on August 4, 2014

Everything you need to know about HTTP Header syntax but were afraid to ask

Published on July 30, 2014

Hypermedia as the engine of application state, the client-server dance

Published on July 16, 2014

The Insanity of the Vary Header

Published on July 10, 2014

REST Agent - Lessons learned in building generic hypermedia clients

Published on July 8, 2014

Composing API responses for maximum reuse with ASP.NET Web API

Published on July 2, 2014

An HTTP Resource is a lot simpler than you might think

Published on July 1, 2014

Single purpose media types and reusability

Published on June 24, 2014

Single purpose media types and caching

Published on June 23, 2014

Please, no more generic hypermedia types

Published on June 23, 2014

XSLT is easy, even for transforming JSON!

Published on June 19, 2014

Self-descriptive, isn't. Don't assume anything.

Published on June 17, 2014

Distributed Web API discovery

Published on June 13, 2014

There is Unicode in your URL!

Published on June 11, 2014

Returning raw JSON content from ASP.NET Web API

Published on June 11, 2014

Sharing Fiddler requests using Runscope

Published on June 11, 2014

Streamlining self-hosting with Chocolatey, Nuget, Owin and Topshelf – part 2

Published on May 27, 2014

Streamlining self-hosting with Chocolatey, Nuget, Owin and Topshelf – part 1

Published on May 27, 2014

Making your ASP.NET Web API funcky with an OWIN appFunc

Published on May 27, 2014

The simplest Owin AppFunc that works

Published on May 15, 2014

The much maligned User Agent header

Published on May 5, 2014

We all need an identity

Published on April 30, 2014

Posting raw JSON to Web API

Published on April 24, 2014

Web Standards Search Engine

Published on April 23, 2014

It’s time for a change, and more of the same.

Published on April 22, 2014

Tavis.Link and dependencies

Published on August 19, 2013

What? No Comments

Published on August 18, 2013

Convert attributes to elements in XSLT

Published on February 3, 2013

A Mercurial changelog

Published on January 21, 2013

Experiments with Katana

Published on January 12, 2013

How not to write spec documents

Published on December 29, 2012

Deep Fried Hypermedia

Published on September 10, 2012

Troubleshooting serialization problems in Web API

Published on August 10, 2012

What does coupling mean to you?

Published on June 5, 2012

Using Nuget to give Web API that Add Service Reference experience

Published on May 30, 2012

WebPack

Published on May 25, 2012

Subtleties of MVC Routing

Published on May 16, 2012

Naming things is hard

Published on May 11, 2012

Don’t sacrifice suppleness to the DRY gods

Published on March 15, 2012

Hypermedia Client Maturity Model

Published on March 7, 2012

A Tekpub API

Published on March 5, 2012

HttpClient, it lives, and it is glorious.

Published on January 9, 2012

How to GET aHEAD with MessageHandlers!

Published on May 22, 2011

HTTP Trace was never so easy

Published on May 21, 2011

The world’s simplest WCF Web API

Published on April 16, 2011

Web APIs: Don’t be a victim of your success.

Published on April 11, 2011

REST in Montreal

Published on February 17, 2011

WCF HTTP – work in progress

Published on November 2, 2010

Microsoft WCF gets serious about HTTP

Published on October 28, 2010

RESTfest was a blast

Published on September 19, 2010

Agent Fielding is on a mission

Published on August 28, 2010

Rest Agent uses hypermedia

Published on August 12, 2010

Rest Agent – An introduction

Published on August 9, 2010

The StackOverflow question that couldn’t stay open

Published on July 21, 2010

World’s simplest OData service

Published on March 26, 2010

Using the HttpClient and the OData service to download Mix videos

Published on March 20, 2010

Convert XML to JSON using XSLT

Published on February 12, 2010

But can you test it?

Published on February 12, 2010

FOR XML PATH and CQRS

Published on January 18, 2010

Woe is me, the WOA unmanifesto

Published on December 14, 2009

HttpContent instead of streams

Published on December 9, 2009

Why the Microsoft.Http library is awesome.

Published on December 8, 2009

HttpClient – The basics

Published on December 8, 2009

Oh Data

Published on November 30, 2009

It is not that we don’t like the convenience of Windows Installer

Published on August 28, 2009

WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2

Published on March 14, 2009

The mystery of the trailing slash and the relative url

Published on February 24, 2009

Gems from rest-discuss

Published on February 5, 2009

A lesson in how not to handle an unhappy customer

Published on February 5, 2009

Net Sourcing

Published on January 28, 2009

VB.Net and C#&#8230; again

Published on January 8, 2009

My first MGrammar

Published on November 7, 2008

How to write a document describing a REST Api

Published on October 22, 2008

Witty for Identi.ca. Only the brave need apply.

Published on July 16, 2008

Witty can talk to Identi.ca

Published on July 13, 2008

Security and Http

Published on June 4, 2008

Programming Twitter without WCF 3.5

Published on June 2, 2008

The ultimate WCF Service contract

Published on May 8, 2008

The hypermedia constraint?

Published on May 8, 2008

REST consulting

Published on March 13, 2008

It&#8217;s a sad day

Published on March 3, 2008

Opportunistic locking and remote desktop

Published on December 18, 2007

Why WPF for LOB applications?

Published on October 29, 2007

What is needed to build distributed applications.

Published on September 17, 2007

TimmyOnTime » Time Management meets Instant Messaging

Published on September 14, 2007

Indexing PDF files in Sharepoint 2007

Published on September 14, 2007

Demo Camp Montreal 3

Published on July 25, 2007

System.UriTemplate

Published on July 24, 2007

Love is fickle

Published on July 24, 2007

ORM Smackdown on .Net rocks

Published on May 27, 2007

Smart Client Software Factory May 2007 is live

Published on May 19, 2007

The SourceGear Fortress deal

Published on May 17, 2007

PUT versus POST

Published on May 11, 2007

UAC is our fault

Published on May 9, 2007

Using ServiceModel.Web to return XML documents instead of Data Contracts

Published on May 5, 2007

Slow Outlook 2007?

Published on April 18, 2007

Podcast aggregators

Published on April 13, 2007

Prediction Time

Published on February 13, 2007

Wix and Team Build &#8211; Passing Variables

Published on December 29, 2006

Vista on Virtual PC

Published on December 7, 2006

Custom Powershell Cmdlets and the mystery of System.Management.Automation.dll

Published on December 3, 2006

Powershell and Sandcastle

Published on November 5, 2006

Powershell and Innovasys DocumentX4

Published on November 5, 2006

CAB + WPF

Published on October 25, 2006

Pnp Summit &#8211; Conclusions

Published on October 12, 2006

Pnp Summit &#8211; Don Smith and his loose interfaces

Published on October 10, 2006

nHibernate performance concerns

Published on October 6, 2006

VMware Server

Published on September 22, 2006

Windows Live Writer

Published on August 17, 2006

NetFX 3 ?

Published on June 17, 2006

Open Source vs In house development

Published on June 10, 2006

Extending CAB Commands

Published on June 10, 2006

Why do people use always?

Published on June 7, 2006

TFS and collation

Published on June 7, 2006

Hint to students applying for jobs

Published on June 7, 2006

Open Source Java

Published on May 21, 2006

Stored Procedures with no results

Published on May 13, 2006

CAB is wonderful

Published on May 13, 2006

Xml but not XHtml

Published on May 9, 2006

Encompix get bought

Published on April 16, 2006

MSN search still sucks!

Published on March 3, 2006

Software as a service

Published on November 15, 2005

Open source dreams

Published on November 15, 2005

Move to WordPress

Published on October 23, 2005

Google versus Microsoft. Phooey!

Published on September 25, 2005

Prediction time&#8230;

Published on September 20, 2005

MBS is headed the wrong way&#8230;

Published on September 14, 2005

Software-on-demand and small businesses

Published on April 27, 2005

So long Classic VB

Published on March 20, 2005

I was replaced by a biztalk server

Published on March 3, 2005

There is never enough time

Published on March 2, 2005

Why I like hyperthreading&#8230;

Published on February 20, 2005

Some people are missing the point

Published on February 20, 2005

Goodbye and Good Riddence

Published on February 17, 2005

XML: The good and the bad

Published on February 13, 2005

A New PC

Published on February 5, 2005

Quote of the day

Published on January 28, 2005

TPC Benchmarks, a new Outlook

Published on November 19, 2004

Linux OS sales boost Novell

Published on November 19, 2004

Small Business Server

Published on November 1, 2004

Application Security

Published on October 31, 2004

Adding to the Active Directory Schema

Published on October 31, 2004

Welcome!

Published on October 30, 2004