A great post on API design: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3018-api-design-for-humans
Author: braveterry
mdp: Command-line based Markdown presentation tool
Notejam: Sample web application written in multiple frameworks and languages to facilitate comparison
https://github.com/komarserjio/notejam
Supported frameworks
In progress
- Javascript (node.js)
- Express
- Python
- web2py
- PHP
- CakePHP
- CodeIgniter
ZipLocate: Free API for zip code geolocation
GET http://ziplocate.us/api/v1/80302
{
"lat": 40.0218407798957,
"lng": -105.285698075852,
"zip": "80302"
}
You can also download the complete dataset to host the API yourself if you prefer: https://github.com/nathancahill/ziplocate
Link: Testing Best Practices at Etsy
Link: What We Do and Don’t Know about Software Development Effort Estimation
Link: An Abridged Introduction to Go
Planning Poker: Software development estimation technique
CommonMark: Proposal for a standard, unambiguous Markdown syntax spec and a comprehensive test-suite
I’m a huge fan of Markdown, but I have always found the slightly different (and occasionally buggy) implementations across platforms and programming languages to be a pain. Hopefully this will help with some of the confusion.