An application programming interface (API) is software that acts as an intermediary between two programs, helping them exchange information.

I believe that almost any programming language can be used to build almost any kind of user interface, but that the closer the user interface is to the assumptions built into the language, the simpler ...

With PDC on the rapidly approaching horizon there is already talk of ‘how to prepare for the development road ahead’ – and discussion around ‘Oslo’, Microsoft’s “family” of technologies for ...

This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. What are "APIs?" An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of protocol routines, and tools for building software. APIs allow ...

Application programming interfaces are critical to provide levels of system access permissions for particular groups of users, but they also present a big problem: Authorization using APIs provides a ...

Ars was at FOSSCamp this weekend. Think of FOSSCamp as an "un-conference" without a set agenda where the minds behind open source projects get together and plot world domination (and, err, ways to ...

A software tool used in software programming that abstracts all the programming steps into a user interface for the developer. An application programming interface (API) is a software tool used in ...

Your interaction with the netWorks application is typically through the computer mouse. Using a drag-and-drop user interface, you create a graphical depiction of your network by dragging icons ...