Learn Rest API

Use Rest APIs to make it easier for applications to communicate with each other. These tutorials show you how to code an API using various frameworks and approaches.
  1. Building With the Twitter API: Tweet Storms

    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...

  2. RESTful API Design With NodeJS & Restify

    RESTful API Design With NodeJS & Restify

    Tutorial Intermediate

    An API is used to provide set of functionalities to the consumer in order to access data or features of the current system or application. The RESTful API is...

  3. Building With the Twitter API: Getting Started

    Building With the Twitter API: Getting Started

    Tutorial Advanced

    Learn the Twitter API with PHP using a standalone, open-source Yii application called Birdcage.

  4. Using Ruby to Program Arduino

    Using Ruby to Program Arduino

    Tutorial Beginner

    This article explains the role of Arduino in the 'Internet of Things' or 'Physical Computing' and goes on to show how Ruby can be used to play with the Arduino.

  5. Uploading Pictures via XML-RPC and PHP to WordPress

    Uploading Pictures via XML-RPC and PHP to WordPress

    Tutorial Beginner

    Let's say you're familiar with the XML-RPC protocol and how it works, even in WordPress, and you've used it before. Adding posts, deleting pages, etc. All is...

  6. XML-RPC in WordPress

    XML-RPC in WordPress

    Tutorial Beginner

    XML-RPC is a protocol for remote procedure calls which uses XML for the data exchange and it mostly uses HTTP for the actual call. In XML-RPC the client that...

  7. How to Create an Advanced Twitter Widget

    How to Create an Advanced Twitter Widget

    Tutorial Beginner

    As of March 2011, the current average number of "Tweets" the world sends per day is 140 million. This tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom Twitter...

  8. 10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter With Your Website

    10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter With Your Website

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Web developers with social media savvy are in hot demand. Imagine what it would be like to promise your clients a web presence that is fully integrated with...