A blog about things that interest me.
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Beginning API Discovery (or understanding the RootServices document)
Now that we’ve covered some of the basics on what we mean when we say APIs (link to prior post), it’s time to get into the power of ELM thru its API discovery process. Many of the APIs on a server are exposed thru API calls. The foundation of this discovery mechanism is the “RootServices”…
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API types and the API Landing Page
When someone mentions APIs what do you think of? Let’s look at the acronym and the discuss how I will be using it over the course or this blog series. API stands for “Application Programming Interface”. This term is pretty broad as it is a connection between computers, programs and software services. APIs can be…
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Welcome to API Corner
“With Great Power comes Great Responsibility”. I remember first hearing this phrase in Spider Man comics. But it has a much longer history than that. Wikipedia indicates that this is actually an ancient phrase going back to the first century BC. I find that IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management’s (IBM ELM’s) incredible flexibility and power is…
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A potential plan for 2022
As I mentioned a while back, I took on a much more technical role in my day job recently. I am working on IBM’s “Engineering Lifecycle Management” product offering as a solution architect. My primary focus is on our reusable components, which includes many of our APIs. APIs are the building blocks of modern applications,…
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2022 – Code and Cloud
Well, made it thru to another year. 2022 seems to be starting with the same hope and courage of 2021, let’s hope it ends on a better note. I’ve been working on a Card Tracking app for a few years. It started as a project to hope me learn CoreData, I then pivoted to learn…