convore.json/groups/github/developing-against-an-api-where-to-start/messages.json

[{"user_id": 14024, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300373865.470566, "message": "I'm new to this API using development and was thinking about where to get started, maybe there are some good hints / ideas (also see a blog post of mine where I talk about this and some ideas http://goo.gl/hR9nv)", "group_id": 591, "id": 374655}, {"user_id": 2320, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300374274.666364, "message": "curl ;)", "group_id": 591, "id": 374724}, {"user_id": 1307, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300373919.0659549, "message": "writing unit tests for existing libraries for the API is another good method of learning", "group_id": 591, "id": 374667}, {"user_id": 8274, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300374228.795033, "message": "I either try to find an existing client library and tinker around with it in the Ruby (or other) console, or use something like RestClient to talk to it with only a little bit of an abstraction.", "group_id": 591, "id": 374715}, {"user_id": 22319, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300374986.453964, "message": "play first \u2026 test later", "group_id": 591, "id": 374862}, {"user_id": 22421, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300375186.483377, "user_id": 14024}], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300375079.069068, "message": "Play by testing... :)", "group_id": 591, "id": 374874}, {"user_id": 14024, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300373770.889626, "message": "Do you start by looking for frameworks / implementations of the APIs?", "group_id": 591, "id": 374636}, {"user_id": 1307, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300374045.0386441, "user_id": 14024}, {"date_created": 1300428543.5395761, "user_id": 22250}, {"date_created": 1301318745.097481, "user_id": 22924}], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300373834.885668, "message": "Consoles are good, apigee.com has a few nice consoles for popular APIs", "group_id": 591, "id": 374649}, {"user_id": 22319, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300375145.253973, "message": "yep, good one!", "group_id": 591, "id": 374887}, {"user_id": 14024, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300373750.0583661, "message": "So let's say you have found an interesting API (convore, hunch, simplegeo, google apis, facebook, twitter, etc.) - where do you usually start when developing an app against it?", "group_id": 591, "id": 374630}, {"user_id": 14024, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300373786.894253, "message": "Do you go ahead and start coding your own implementation?", "group_id": 591, "id": 374640}, {"user_id": 14024, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300373802.4935091, "message": "Do you test the API first using its console (if there is one)?", "group_id": 591, "id": 374643}, {"user_id": 14024, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300374068.1319809, "message": "@kaerast Wow http://apigee.com/ looks nice for testing. Thanks, didn't know about it.", "group_id": 591, "id": 374701}, {"user_id": 651, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300374649.704689, "message": "I usually use curl/restclient to play around with the API, before I try out a client library. This way I have a better understanding of what actually happens, especially when the degree of abstraction in the library is rather high.", "group_id": 591, "id": 374799}, {"user_id": 22421, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300374851.22469, "message": "I would start with unit tests as well.", "group_id": 591, "id": 374844}, {"user_id": 22421, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300375597.7435429, "user_id": 14024}], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300375569.0702789, "message": "@skohler Yes. I am aware of that. Both products are great by the way! :-)", "group_id": 591, "id": 374951}, {"user_id": 22421, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300584837.7946401, "user_id": 9450}], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300375335.291048, "message": "There is also http://hurl.it/ which is similar to http://apigee.com/", "group_id": 591, "id": 374907}, {"user_id": 14024, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300375447.2485199, "message": "@otaviofff Now that you say it - hurl was written (in part) by @leah which happens to work on/for convore. What small world we live in ;-)", "group_id": 591, "id": 374929}, {"user_id": 1855, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300380132.4970961, "message": "http://hurl.it useful tool, since you can save settings and share", "group_id": 591, "id": 375335}, {"user_id": 22319, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300380871.5517521, "message": "@locks haha, from the GitHub group ;)", "group_id": 591, "id": 375483}, {"user_id": 1855, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1300380179.422884, "message": "there's also http://htty.github.com/", "group_id": 591, "id": 375345}, {"user_id": 4149, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1301257160.8929639, "message": "hurl.it is down that sucks guess time to use htty or apigee", "group_id": 591, "id": 452619}, {"user_id": 14024, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1301304609.0544009, "message": "What are @defunkt and @leah saying to hurl.it being down?", "group_id": 591, "id": 456589}, {"user_id": 14024, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1301304591.8533161, "message": "@italiano40 What? When? Why? I used it on Friday (as a starting point for API development - see blog post: goo.gl/w4Lyd) and it worked fine. One could still run an own version of it as it is open source - right?", "group_id": 591, "id": 456587}, {"user_id": 25530, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1301313174.7151201, "message": "it's down for me as well", "group_id": 591, "id": 457173}, {"user_id": 4149, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1301323382.22595, "message": "@skohler yea it is open source and no they said nothing I know about, and it is still down", "group_id": 591, "id": 458227}, {"user_id": 3, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1301364820.3629291, "message": "htty looks slick", "group_id": 591, "id": 464234}, {"user_id": 3, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1301364823.24382, "message": "hurl goes down every once in a while", "group_id": 591, "id": 464236}, {"user_id": 3, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1301364824.430433, "message": "it's back now", "group_id": 591, "id": 464237}, {"user_id": 3, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13594, "date_created": 1301364840.0755589, "message": "i'm not sure why it keeps dying and don't have a ton of time to devote to it =/", "group_id": 591, "id": 464241}]