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Getting Started With the Instagram API: Media Endpoints

Tutorial • Intermediate

Now that you're ready to dive into the Instagram API, we'll begin by registering a client application and searching for popular and place-based images...

Jeff Reifman • 20 Jul 2015
Rest API

Introduction to the Gmail API

Tutorial • Beginner

In June 2014, Google introduced a public API for its popular Gmail service. Learn what you can do with the API to programmatically manage your email.

Jeff Reifman • 7 Jul 2015
Hosting

Using the Digital Ocean API to Manage Your DNS

Tutorial • Intermediate

Digital Ocean now offers fast reliable DNS hosting. Here's how to program it with their API using our downloadable console application.

Jeff Reifman • 15 Jun 2015
Hosting

Using the Digital Ocean API to Manage Cloud Instances

Tutorial • Intermediate

Automate common system administration and testing tasks with the Digital Ocean API. Create, clone and back up your servers at the push of a button.

Jeff Reifman • 5 Jun 2015
Testing

Introduction to Mailtrap: A Fake SMTP Server for Pre-Production Testing

Tutorial • Beginner

Mailtrap provides a fake SMTP server for your development team to test, view and share emails sent from the pre-production environments and avoid spamming...

Jeff Reifman • 30 May 2015
Yii

Using Social Media to Locate Eyewitnesses: The Twitter API

Tutorial • Intermediate

In part one, we used the Instagram API to find eyewitnesses to important events. Now we'll use the more difficult Twitter geolocation search API.

Jeff Reifman • 25 May 2015
Yii

Using Social Media to Locate Eyewitnesses to Important Events

Tutorial • Intermediate

Given a time and a place, how might a journalist or law enforcement detective locate potential eyewitnesses to a crime or important event? We'll explore the...

Jeff Reifman • 4 May 2015
Rest API

Localize Your Web Application for Any Country With the Google Translate API

Tutorial • Intermediate

By linking Yii's I18n Message/Extract to the Google Translate API, we can automate translation of our application into 63 languages.

Jeff Reifman • 2 May 2015
Laravel

Creating a Dating Application with Sinch: RESTful API

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this tutorial, we're going to create a dating application for iOS similar to Tinder. For voice and messaging, we will leverage the Sinch platform, making...

Carlos Cessa • 24 Apr 2015
Rest API

Building Your Startup With PHP: Geolocation and Google Places

Tutorial • Intermediate

Before you can schedule meetings with the Meeting Planner application, we need to build support for adding nearby places with the simplicity of geolocation...

Jeff Reifman • 10 Feb 2015
Rest API

Import and Archive Your Tweets With WordPress

Tutorial • Intermediate

Install a specialized Twitter archive theme for WordPress and its accompanying plugin; benefit from search engine traffic to your tweets.

Jeff Reifman • 28 Jan 2015
Rest API

Building With the Twitter API: Tweet Storms

Tutorial • Intermediate

Some ideas are too big for 140 characters. Post your thoughts in numbered sequences of tweets with the Twitter API. In this tutorial, we'll work through the...

Jeff Reifman • 7 Jan 2015