https://dchua.com/tags/api/ Recent content in api on davidchua Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2013-08-11-postman-chrome-extension-test-your-apis-via-a-simple-gui/ Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2013-08-11-postman-chrome-extension-test-your-apis-via-a-simple-gui/ If you’re always building APIs and often need to test your outputs, why not use the Chrome extension POSTMAN. Instead of running ‘curl’ and having to remember how to set the params values, Postman allows you to send http requests via all the available methods (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE…) through an easy to use GUI interface. I’ve been using it for quite sometime now and it has been really valuable in my webdev toolkit. https://dchua.com/posts/2010-12-21-how-to-consume-project-nimbus-dataservices-via-rest-in-javaandroid/ Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2010-12-21-how-to-consume-project-nimbus-dataservices-via-rest-in-javaandroid/ In my previous post, I’ve wrote about consuming Project Nimbus Datasets in Ruby through their REST API interface. Right now, on Project Nimbus’s guides to consuming their datasets in Java/Android currently introduces two method. One is to use the Restlet framework to connect, and another is through a manual webservice method. I particulaly found the two tutorials lacking, especially for a beginning Java guy, or a Rusty java guy. The webservice tutorial have lots of holes in between and might throw off new users, like how it threw me off. https://dchua.com/posts/2010-10-13-how-to-consume-project-nimbus-dataservices-in-ruby/ Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 https://dchua.com/posts/2010-10-13-how-to-consume-project-nimbus-dataservices-in-ruby/ Project Nimbus is a community initiative by developers working in key corporations and government agencies in Singapore that aims to open up data and services for local innovators who wants to create applications with localized data. The project is current supported by a mix of government agencies like LTA, NEA as well as private businesses/startups like Chlkboard and Shownearby. The list is no where exhaustive and the dataset curators are constantly updating their site with new data providers, so please refer to the Project Nimbus page for a more up to date list.