Fresnel: A Console app to manage Lighthouse
Fresnel is a console manager to LighthouseApp.com using the official Lighthouse API. Using Fresnel you can browse your complete lighthouse account. To get started just install the gem gem install...
View ArticleGoogle Analytics API v2 now in Python Client Library for Google Data APIs
This newly updated Python wrapper for the Google Data APIs supports the following Google services: GData Developer Forum GData Python Client Lib Contributor Forum Health Data API Forum Project Hosting...
View Articleneo4jr-social: REST interface for Neo4j
Need to talk to Neo4j, the popular Java NoSQL database but no habla Java? No worries, @mdeiters has your back with Neo4jr-Social: Neo4jr-Social is a self contained HTTP REST + JSON interface to the...
View ArticleEpisode 0.1.3 – Civic hacking with Luigi Montanez and Jeremy Carbaugh from...
Adam and Wynn caught up with Luigi Montanez and Jeremy Carbaugh from Sunlight Labs and discussed their Python and Ruby projects, government transparency, and civic hacking – open source contributions...
View ArticleWebFinger libraries emerge
Less than 24 hours after Google broke the news of its take on WebFinger, its 21st century take on the Unix finger command, enterprising developers are releasing native libraries for the service. In...
View ArticleEpisode 0.1.5 – Leah Culver on OAuth, Hurl.it, Baconfile, and more
Adam and Wynn caught up with Leah Culver and talked about startups, APIs, and her open source work on OAuth, oEmbed, Hurl.it, Baconfile, and more. OAuth An open protocol to allow secure API...
View ArticleCoreyLib: PHP Universal API Wrapper
The PHP world is filled with API and XML Parsers that often bring page rendering to a crawl. Aaron Collegeman’s CoreyLib library is an incredibly simple universal API wrapper with caching built in. It...
View Articlewebshell: A console-based JavaScripty web client utility (using node.js)
If you’re like me, you probably spend a good deal of time using cURL from the console or Hurl on the web to test/inspect/debug HTTP stuffs. Wanting something a bit more robust and console-friendly Evan...
View Articlefacebook-ios-sdk: Drop Facebook into your iOS application
Facebook loves iOS developers. First, they gave us Three20, a nice iOS app framework extracted from their popular native app. Now they’ve released the Facebook iOS SDK which lets you easily add...
View Articlehtty: HTTP TTY, curl meets lynx in an HTTP console
We’ve covered a number of web console tools like Webshell, a nifty HTTP console for Node.js, and Twurl, the Twitter-specific tool for Ruby. But when Nils Jonsson created an incredibly useful HTTP...
View Articleno.de: CLI for Joyent’s Node.js hosting
Joyent’s No.de sevice and its API look to be an exciting option to host Node.js projects. Jeremy Johnstone brings that API to your CLI with his no.de wrapper. no.de can be installed via npm: npm...
View Articleresty: Piping hot REST client for bash or zsh
I love REST APIs, so I’m always looking for new tools for the toolbox. Resty from Micha Niskin caught my eye because it can be loaded into your bash or zsh. To install, just download the script and...
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scrobbyl: Automatically Scrobble your vinyl collection in real time
When we find them, we like to cover niche projects that show off the homebrew spirit that has always been strong in open source communities. Scrobbyl is a Python utility to sample what’s spinning on...
View ArticleWatchWednesday for 20101103
Our weekly list of projects you might have missed on GitHub: RestKit RestKit is a nice high-level library for consuming REST resources in Objective C. It runs on OS X and iOS and provides three major...
View Articlenode-o3-canvas: HTML5 Canvas API for NodeJS
This isn’t the first time we’ve featured the work of our friends over at Ajax.org. In the past we mentioned o3 and Cloud9 and even had them on the podcast, see episode 0.1.6. Their project,...
View Articleapiary: Event Machine API in a box for your Ruby classes
If you need to stand up an API for your Ruby web application, you’ve got a lot of choices including Rails, Sinatra, even close-to-the-metal Rack, or Grape. But, if you’ve got some simple Ruby classes...
View Articlewebdis: HTTP + JSON API for Redis
HTTP is the dial tone of the web. Apps that speak HTTP tend to grow in popularity, such as CouchDB whose built-in HTTP-based RESTful API makes it super easy to store and retrieve JSON data. Nicolas...
View Articlejsondns: DNS JSON API
If you’re building a cool domain name service or DNS-related mashup, be sure and check out JSON DNS from Joël Franusic. JSON DNS aims to create a standard for DNS info in JSON, and the project includes...
View Articlegovkit: Open Government APIs in a box
In the same way that Fog aims to be the “Ruby cloud services library” by providing an all-in-one bundle of wrappers for popular cloud services including Amazon, Rackspace, and others, GovKit from...
View ArticleEpisode 0.4.7 – Open Government and the Citizen Coder with Carl Tashian
Adam and Wynn caught up with Carl Tashian from Open Government to talk about OpenGovernment.org, OpenCongress.org, and the rise of the Citizen Coder. Items mentioned in the show: Carl Tashian is...
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