How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
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Uploaded by GoogleTechTalks on Oct 8, 2007
Google Tech Talks
January 24, 2007
ABSTRACT
Every day around the world, software developers spend much of their time working with a variety of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Some are integral to the core platform, some provide access to widely distributed frameworks, and some are written in-house for use by a few developers. Nearly all programmers occasionally function as API designers, whether they know it or not. A well-designed API can be a great asset to the organization that wrote it and to all who use it. Good APIs increase the pleasure and productivity of the developers who use them, the quality of the software they produce, and ultimately, the corporate bottom line....
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Great talk! It would be nice if a higher res could be used though. It's extremely difficult to read some of the code used.
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@hecatombe google search for "How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters " from @stanek
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@hecatombe Do a google search for "How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters "
The first hit for me is a link to the .pdf
I also see your comment is 3 years old ...
2 months ago 4
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is it possible to get a better quality version of this?
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Read this book then listen again. Make more sense! Very good topic!
Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
By Martin C. Robert, Martin Micah
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240p...we meet again.
3 months ago 7
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@Lilinye =))
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An amusing part is when he rightly talks about avoiding boilerplate and abusing patterns yet at the end he does exactly that by talking about adding Builders and Factories which are nothing more then unnecessary boilerplate. Java is one of the few languages that needs this kind of boilerplate to be usable
Mr. Bloch is intelligent and highly capable, it isnt my intention to say otherwise. It is proof that Java is harmful to ones thinking. He has been twisted and lives in such a rigid box, sad
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Fantastic talk. Great speaker.
donpdonp 4 years ago 51
Is possible to get slides of the presentation?
hecatombe 4 years ago 27