What about doorway? Some doors are easily opened, some require a key,
some open up to a new world. Depending on the audience (the suggestions
was it was for lay people) the allegories may work quite well.
Robert C
On 5/10/13 11:55 PM, Saul Caganoff wrote:
I prefer the term service as in
I prefer the term protocol. It encompasses the medium, the format, the
expectations/assumptions and the potential dialog among the participants.
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Agreed. In unix command line pipe terms, the API is the
I'm seeing a rise in the use of endpoints. Eg REST, SOAP and WMS endpoints
On May 10, 2013 8:00 AM, Dale Schumacher dale.schumac...@gmail.com
wrote:
I prefer the term protocol. It encompasses the medium, the format, the
expectations/assumptions and the potential dialog among the participants.
On 05/10/2013 07:04 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
I'm seeing a rise in the use of endpoints. Eg REST, SOAP and WMS endpoints
Do you mean in the sense of leaves of a graph?
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I prefer the term service as in service-oriented architecture but
unfortunately that term has become so aligned with the nightmare complexity
of web-services that the term is distinctly unfashionable. But a
standalone, autonomous, platform-neutral, re-usable, location-independent
function is a
For either phrase, either assume your audience knows what you are talking
about or define the terms before you go on. Explain that it is like a
control panel you can receive data from and send instructions through, and
being so generally defined does not go into details of implementation.
-Arlo
Agreed. In unix command line pipe terms, the API is the
goes-into-goes-outof (gozintagozouta) GIGO? for the library. This is how
Sun engineers talked with management about new projects and indeed became a
buzzword.
TL;DR
Actually, if you include the unix command arguments, you get a lovely
Owen Densmore wrote at 05/01/2013 08:45 PM:
From twitter: Anyone have a better word/phrase for API -- Application
Programming Interface? Nick, this should be great for the Village
Pragmatist.
I like control surface:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_control_surface
From twitter: Anyone have a better word/phrase for API -- Application
Programming Interface? Nick, this should be great for the Village
Pragmatist.
*Jeremy Ashkenas* @jashkenas
https://twitter.com/jashkenas4hhttps://twitter.com/jashkenas/status/329730992791240704
Wanted: A better word for
