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  • Crownpeak Acquires Digital Experience Platform Provider e-Spirit

    Crownpeak Logo

    Denver, US based Crownpeak Acquires Digital Experience Platform and CMS Software provider e-Spirit. The company was formerly owned by German IT Company Adesso.

    Source: PRNewswire

  • Third-Party API Economy.

    The Third-Party API Economy
    Image: Grace Isford

    How to Give Your Users Superpowers

    Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, thrive and give companies an edge for focusing on very specific issues. While the pattern has been around sind the early 2000s, the ecosystem only started to develop this rapidly recently.

    Only to make an example, Twilio started their service as an API only offering. The problem the company solves is basically notification. On all channels, mainly texting and calling. Which by itself is pretty complex, compared to what the involving party actually wants to achieve. Twilio is wrapping this functionality to allow their customers take advantage of telecommunication.

    Grace Isford made an effort to classify vendors in the market, that follow similar patterns. The criteria for the selection in his chart are:

    • The product reduces complexity
    • The company provides Business Critical Functionality
    • It takes advantage of a technological shift
    • And finally a community factor

    The entire sector is currently exploding and it’s difficult to keep track. Specialised services, consumable through Web-APIs become a commodity for at least developers. Grace Isfords chart gives a good overview of the current situation, along with some criteria to consider the offering.

    Source: The Third-Party API Economy. How to Give Your Users Superpowers | by Grace Isford | Sep, 2020 | Medium

  • Kong acquires Insomnia

    Kong, a vendor of cloud native Microservice and API Gateway Software and Services, acquires Insomnia. Goal of the acquisition is offer new api testing capabilities, that Kong plans to turn into an end to end API lifecycle management product.

  • Flattr hat eine neue API

    Flattr APIv2: API v2 beta out – what’s changed?

  • HTML5 Geolocation

    So einfach:

    if (navigator.geolocation) {
  navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(callback_success, callback_error);
} else {
  alert('not supported');
}

    Firefox unterstützt das Feature seit Version 3.5. Dokumentiert im Mozilla Wiki: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_geolocation

     

  • CiviCRM 3.4.3/4.0.3

    Gerade das letzte Release verpasst, schon kommt das nächste: “CiviCRM 3.4.3 and 4.0.3 are released“. Neben den Bugfixes des Maintenance-Releases sind folgende Verbesserungen mit umgesetzt worden: (more…)

  • Bandbreite messen und mit Piwik tracken

    In meinem professionellen Umfeld gab es vor kurzem die Anforderung, die verfügbare Bandbreite eines Web-Clients zu messen und natürlich auch aufzuzeichnen bzw. vergleichbar zu machen. Natürlich lässt sich ein solcher Wert auch mittels Piwik tracken.

    Zuallererst ist die Herausforderung aber, Clientseitig verfügbare Bandbreite zu messen und zwar möglichst transparent, automatisch und ohne den Einsatz zusätzlicher Software. (more…)