api

Flickr API: Photos in a Web of Data

bradleyg — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:21:30 -0800

With over 50,000 API keys issued, and over 500,000 API calls daily, and excellent open source libraries in a dozen languages, Flickr API has proven a useful tool in the web developer toolbox.

We'll cover briefly getting started the API, the authentication model and what it means for you, and a smattering the most interesting of the
150+ API methods.

We'll wrap up with a discussion of how to move "beyond a badge" and look
at different ways to slice and dice the info Flickr gives you to
display all the interesting, relevant, community submitted, moderated,

Yahoo Maps API

bradleyg — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:16:07 -0800

Discover the Yahoo! Local Developer APIs - http://developer.yahoo.com/local/

The content in Yahoo! Local makes a great addition to any mashup, bringing in location-based relevancy and the additional context of what real people have experienced in these places. Add Yahoo! Local content to your application or mashup with our APIs.

The Yahoo! Maps Developer APIs - http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/

Yahoo APIs and Content Management Systems

bradleyg — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:38:12 -0800

Web2.0 applications, such as Flickr, del.icio.us and Upcoming.org are getting more popular among web applications today. They often expose APIs that allow developers to build mashups, which combine various Web service for a greater good! These Web services not only return XML, but also support formats such as RSS, JSON and serialized PHP. In this talk, Dan Theurer will discuss the different formats, sources, and technologies and show how open source content management systems can take advantage of it.

Strategies for Integrating Drupal with CiviCRM

Dave Greenberg — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:33:26 -0800

CiviCRM is open source Constituent Relationship Management software designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. CiviCRM provides basic integration with both Drupal and Joomla content management systems out-of-the-box. It also provides APIs and a "hook" system which allow developers to integrate with other modules, AND it can be used as a CRM "platform" for building complex vertical-market applications.

Using node_access in Drupal 5

merlinofchaos — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:44:37 -0800

A comprehensive overview of Drupal's system for securing nodes. This session will cover:

How the database is constructed.
How the query is rewritten.
How it interacts with other Drupal access (particularly permission flags, the published flag and hook_access)
The API
How to put all this together to write a simple access control module.