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Finishing School for Potential API Providers

 Posted on May 25, 2011      by Justin Tormey
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Had the pleasure of speaking with Kin Lane at Gluecon 2011. The topic was APIs and best practices. I’ve got a fair amount of experience with APIs, and tripped and stumbled a few times to learn a few best-practices. Will describe these headlines in more detail in a few days (Gluecon is still going on!).

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