Monthly Archives: November 2015

How To Build An API

What is an API API stands for application program interface. In a nutshell an API is a way for external applications to access information and queries from your program. Twitter for example has a a REST API that allows you to access all types of data from twitter. REST API’s are among the most common types of […]

API Endpoint Testing With Groovy & Spock

There are several ways of making http requests through java and groovy. You can use anything from Netflix’s feign client to standard http url connection classes built into java. I have used many different classes/frameworks for testing system integrations. My favorite choice by far is to use either groovy’s http builder or another class that extends […]

Internet Explorer Bashing

Internet Explorer eats glue

The first development job I had was working for BYU’s Independent Study program converting lessons into website material. The bane our existence was Internet Explorer. Anybody who has developed javascript a few years ago knows that every version of IE had a different engine. The css is also rendered different for each version of IE. […]