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This guest post comes from Daniel Jacobson , Director of Application Development for NPR . Daniel leads NPR’s content management solutions, is the creator of the NPR API and is a frequent contributor to the Inside NPR.org blog . The purpose of a content API is to make the content available to its audience in the most useful and efficient way possible. To be a useful API, it needs to help the developers make their jobs easier. This could mean a wide range of things, including making it easier to dig into the API, allowing for greater flexibility in the responses, improved performance and efficiency for both the API and its consumer. Below are seven development techniques (all of which are part of the NPR API ) that can help content providers improve the usefulness and efficiency of their APIs on both sides of the track. http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/03/31/7-ways-to-make-your-api-more-successful/

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Restler: Simple and effective multi-protocol REST API Server

A RESTful API server framework that is written in PHP that aids your mobile / web / desktop applications. A framework, but with a difference – Restler is all here to bend and mend to your needs Writing Server made easy and light. With the light weight, Restler makes writing a server as easy as writing it with just 3 PHP files http://luracast.com/products/restler/
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API Integration Pain Survey Results « Trove Blog

ad documentation and lack of response from 3rd party regarding bugs or issues with the API. For Tuesday, Jun 7th example, tumblr's documented API features don't always work and emailing them is a waste of time. Different standards for different calls; trying to deal with REST vs. XML-RPC vs. SOAP, JSON vs. XML vs.