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These days, REST APIs are available to integrate your application or website with thousands of platforms — Web 2.0 properties such as Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare, as well as old-school companies ...

One of the key strengths of REST is its simplicity, but that simplicity sometimes raises objections from developers who question whether such a simple approach to application integration can deal with ...

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

APIs are application programming interfaces. They are pieces of software that act as a bridge between one application and another application, piece of hardware or database of information, for example ...

WordPress, the wildly popular CMS that powers 25 percent of all of the planet’s websites, has received an update with a raft of new features, including the ability to share entire posts on other sites ...

Why? Because it will take WordPress into new directions entirely. WordPress has unveiled its latest iteration, version 4.4. It's called Clifford, after the jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown, and comes ...

Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services. The term API stands for ...