Category Archives: Leading Companies

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PayPal’s New API: So Close, Yet So Far

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

I got an email from the PayPal Developer Network today announcing PayPal’s new “NVP” (or “Name-Value Pair“) API. Clearly they’ve learned that the complexity of SOAP is counter productive to adoption. Here’s what the email had to say about their … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Framework Developers, Leading Companies, REST, SOAP, SoapBox, Web Developers, Website Owners | 2 Comments

Intro, Part 11: Each Post will Identify Audience

Posted on December 27, 2006 by Mike Schinkel

Here at the Well Designed URLs Initiative we plan to address a wide audience and cover a plethora of URL-related topics. If it wasn’t obvious from yesterday’s post we plan to publish content for a variety of roles so we … Continue reading →

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