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 ...

Discussing technical jargon isn't everyone's favorite pastime, but it's important to understand how the technology we use works, at least on a basic level. API is one technical term that comes up ...

Discover Perplexity's new Search API, giving developers real-time access to a vast web index for advanced AI apps.

It's a good book. Parts of it are really drawn out and boring, though. Once I was comfortable with using the Win32 API, I stopped reading the book and just looked up things on MSDN or in that book to ...

Some more developments for Referly, the Y-Combinator/500 Startups company co-founded by Twilio’s ex-head of marketing, Danielle Morrill. In what may be a hat-tip to the adept use of APIs at her former ...

ALSA stands for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. It consists of a set of kernel drivers, an application programming interface (API) library and utility programs for supporting sound under Linux.

The Observable design pattern is used in many important Java APIs. One well-known example is a JButton that uses the ActionListener API to execute an action. In this example, we have an ActionListener ...

You've heard about the next generation directory protocol called LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol), and you're wondering if it's possible to write programs that can interact with it. Maybe ...