DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Dani …time the goal is to utilize [our new API](http://www.daniweb.com/api/home) launched last month. There's a lot… do with our API. Essentially it allows your application (web, desktop, mobile, etc) to tap into DaniWeb's backend. Your…. **Be sure to tag all submissions with both *daniweb-api* and *daniweb-api-contest-submission*** Good luck!!!!! :) Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by pritaeas http://www.daniweb.com/tags/daniweb-api-contest-submission Pwning DaniWeb: the search is on for the God of Code Programming Software Development by happygeek …Business Exchange section. All submissions must be tagged with both 'daniweb-api' and 'daniweb-api-contest-submission' in order to be eligible. More information, including usage… examples, about the API is [available here](http://www.daniweb.com/api/home), … Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Dani … are some examples of native applications that can use the DaniWeb API: * Browser toolbar that gives realtime notification about PMs, watched article… every behind-the-scenes function that the DaniWeb website makes use of. Using the API, you can theoretically rewrite all read functionality… Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by happygeek From the Daniweb Digest newsletter this month: We are very pleased to announce the winners of the API competition which was launched earlier… to help raise awareness of the new and very robust DaniWeb API available to developers. Because both Coreyavis and Pritaeas came up… your own enthusiasm and skill, and the flexibility of the DaniWeb API. Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Octet Are there any rules, age restrictions or specific requirements (other than it having to include the Daniweb API)? And in agreement to diafol, a very generous set of prizes! Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by pritaeas Here's one to get things going (I hope): http://www.daniweb.com/web-development/php/code/451489/daniweb-api-mashup Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Dani http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/geeks-lounge/threads/451027/daniweb-api-developer-competition#post1952715 Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Dani Labdabeta, post your question in the appropriate Software Development forum but tag the thread daniweb-api Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Reverend Jim … for anyone looking for a (probably) challenging app using the daniweb api. How about displaying a map of the world showing the… danaweb users? Depending on what info is available via the api this could be restricted to users with a minimum number… Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by diafol … for anyone looking for a (probably) challenging app using the daniweb api. How about displaying a map of the world showing the… danaweb users? Depending on what info is available via the api this could be restricted to users with a minimum number… Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by IIM … for anyone looking for a (probably) challenging app using the daniweb api. How about displaying a map of the world showing the… danaweb users? Depending on what info is available via the api this could be restricted to users with a minimum number… Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by riahc3 …fairness to other members, The API has been here about a month and so has the contest. Extending wouldnt be fair to… others who have worked on the API (such as pritaeas; my…seems that the first few weeks were spent learning the API and creating frameworks around it, as opposed to developing … Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Octet Does anyone know the deadline for this contest? Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by riahc3 … obviously be better and Ill be left out of the contest... Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by pritaeas > whatever pritaes makes will obviously be better and Ill be left out of the contest Thank you for your confidence, but this time the competition is about the end result, not the code. I am not a designer (I don't even like to design). Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by diafol … see a way of doing that at this time. The api doesn't keep a logged-in field does it? Anyway… project, it will in no way be ready by the contest deadline. As for other side projects, nothing there to submit… Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by juanky88 Hello and sorry for my bad english, i want to participate in the contest doing a iPhone native app, has the application be available in the App Store? if not, how you can valorate it? Thanks Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Dani …ve mentioned, the API opens up all of the backend model-layer functionality (MVC model) that the DaniWeb website uses. We… point of the API: to create functionality that doesn't currently exist in core DaniWeb. If native DaniWeb doesn't have …info. Fetch a list of members from http://www.daniweb.com/api/members and they will be sorted based on last … Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Mike Askew …from creating my entry for this competition. I feel the API was designed mainly with web developers in mind and there… I also don't understand the exact use for the API with its web orientation considering we all browse the site… the web anyway so surely the main uses of the API would fall to native applications allowing the user site functionality… Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by diafol … client that keeps track of members logged into DaniWeb.com and matches them up with IRC nicknames …couldn't see how the api could give that info. >But the API is a bit limited. &… biased, but I really don't find the API very limiting. Just hit me when I tried…data that wasn't possible throught the API interface, e.g. a traditional SQL INNER JOIN … Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by diafol … the point of the API: to create functionality that doesn't currently exist in core DaniWeb. If native DaniWeb doesn't have a…'s not going to be a native feature of our API either. Otherwise, our native application would be so bloated … content and perform the query on your end. Scrape our API and reproduce the portions of our database that you will… Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Dani … of May. Voting will take place in June. # Update: **The API code snippet competition is being extended to allow submissions up… because the competition came right on the heels of the API being released, and I completely didn't realize the amount… take to get acquainted with the building blocks of the API before anything could really be developed. Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Dani > I can't see a way of doing that at this time. The api doesn't keep a logged-in field does it? You can fetch http://www.daniweb.com/api/members and it's a list of members sorted by their last activity time (data->last_visit_timestamp). Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by pritaeas > get some people involved! This is what I miss too. I had expected more interest, especially since there were examples on how to use the API from early on. Apart from that, my API wrapper is not an entry, anyone is free to (ab)use it. Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by diafol …;I also don't understand the exact use for the API with its web orientation considering we all browse the site… the web anyway so surely the main uses of the API would fall to native applications allowing the user site functionality… we are able to create mashups, e.g. tie in daniweb members with their twitter feed for example. But the… Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Dani > 'Limited' was not a pop at the API - as I said - more to do with my attempts to … designed to give (as you mention). On the contrary, the API **was designed** to give the flexibility to do nearly everything… them together in an infinite number of different combinations. The API would be much more limiting IMHO if we provided more… Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Dani … document it says what the appropriate behavior is for the API if a redirect_uri is not present. I see where it… string. If a redirect_uri is not provided, how should the API respond with the values?? Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Labdabeta … exe file) that could access the data on daniweb, present it differently (IE: I want to …it isn't. From what I understand an API is designed to allow similar access to the…on the hard drive but rather here on daniweb. Unfortunately when it comes to the internet …(I would like if I could access the API functionality in c++/WinAPI, but java or similar… Re: DaniWeb API Developer Competition Community Center Meta DaniWeb by Dani … know how to make such a program if all the daniweb data was kept on a hard-drive on the users… isn't. All you need to do is scrape our API and duplicate its contents on your local hdd in a…