This lab walks you through some different components of the Maps API and JavaScript.

Most websites are built from a combination of HTML (content) and JavaScript (behaviour). We want to focus on programming, so each excercise contains pre-built HTML.

The Skytap Cloud API is a REST-based API centered on supporting automation of a few core use cases:

Start up one or more virtual machines
Interact with them - run programs, tests, collect data, etc.
Shut down virtual machines
Report on the status of virtual machines and resources
Manage users (create/read/update/delete)
Assign resources and quotas to users

DNSimple is a hosted DNS service that you can use to manage your domains. Plans start at $3 per month. We offer both a web-based interface and an iPhone application for adding and removing domains and DNS records as well as an HTTP API and command-line tool.

The Pinboard API is a way to interact programatically with your bookmarks, notes and other Pinboard data.

In order to make life convenient for developers, wherever possible the Pinboard API uses the same syntax and method names as the Delicious V1 API. See differences from Delicious for a full list of areas where the APIs diverge.

Read/write access to your Delicious bookmarks and tags via an HTTP-based interface

The Basecamp API is implemented as vanilla XML over HTTP using all four verbs (GET/POST/PUT/DELETE). Every resource, like Post, Comment, or TodoList, has their own URL and are manipulated in isolation. In other words, we've tried to make the API follow the REST principles as much as we can.

Here’s what people are doing with the Backpack API so far.

The Backpack API is implemented as vanilla XML over HTTP. Send the Content-Type: application/xml header to identify XML requests.

A page about using the Backpack API from Perl.

Net::Backpack is now available. Currently it only covers the pages section of the API, but other calls will be included before too long.

And here’s a link to Net::Backpack on CPAN.