January 31, 2018 — In Part 1 we looked at how APIs have evolved over the last few decades and how each one gave way to the next. In this second part, let’s look at where mobile client API design appears to be headed — with a particular emphasis on GraphQL. Read More…

January 30, 2018 — This article provides an overview of the concepts, technologies and coding techniques involved with running test scripts against browsers automatically using WebDriverJS on Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge. Read More…

January 24, 2018 — Rather than exploring features first, it is helpful to put them into context and to understand how they came to exist. An introduction to GraphQL and lessons learned from the last 60 years of API development. Read More…

January 22, 2018 — Intersection information is needed for many reasons, such as lazy loading of images. But there’s so much more. It’s time to get a better understanding and different perspectives on the Intersection Observer API. Ready? Read More…

January 17, 2018 — If you want to be able to read API documentations and use them effectively, you’ll first need to understand everything about REST APIs. Let’s get started. Read More…

January 2, 2018 — The W3C Working Group has been busy developing new standards to help make online payments much easier. In this article, Peter O’Shaughnessy provides you with the latest updates and explores the API with a basic example. Read More…

August 7, 2017 — Using voice commands has become pretty ubiquitous nowadays, as more mobile phone users use voice assistants such as Siri and Cortana, and as devices such as Amazon Echo and Google Home have been invading our living rooms. These systems are built with speech recognition … Read More…

May 30, 2017 — This tutorial gives you hands-on access to my journey of creating a digital assistant capable of connecting with any system via a RESTful API to perform various tasks. Here, I’ll be demonstrating how to save a user’s basic information and create a new project on their behalf … Read More…

May 29, 2017 — For the holidays, the owner of (and my boss at) thirteen23 gave each employee a Google Home device. If you don’t already know, Google Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by Google Assistant and is a competing product to Amazon’s line of Alexa products. I already have … Read More…