Introduction to the Facebook Open Graph API
"Introduction to the Facebook Open Graph API" is a free, 30-minute informational webinar. The presenter is Armando Roggio, cont...
APIs & Plug-ins
Importing Mechanical Turk Results into Magento
One of the most surprising challenges in retail ecommerce is how difficult it is to generate good, customer-facing product descriptions. But savvy web developers can use Amazon's Mechanical Turk service and Magento's API to rapidly import product ...
15 Noteworthy jQuery Plugins
jQuery plugins extend the popular JavaScript library's functions, abstracting commonly used features that for a variety of reasons are better suited as an addition to jQuery rather than part of its core. Often, jQuery plugins are the work of web ...
13 Powerful WordPress Plugins
WordPress is the popular blogging platform and content management system that powers many established, and startup, websites. The open source WordPress platform has an extremely devoted development community, and as a result there are thousands ...
A First Look at the Google+ API
The recently released version 1 of the Google+ application programming interface (API) gives developers read access to pubic user data, making it possible to include Google+ content on almost any website. Google indicated that future versions of ...
Google Releases New APIs, Tools for Google+
Google has released the first application programming interfaces for Google+, its new social network. This initial API set is intended for feedback and learning. You can experiment with it and build apps on it. Then, if you choose, you can give Go...
Make Basic SOAP Calls to the Magento Core API
Magento has a core API that allows developers to access customer, product, and transaction data via the simple object access protocol (SOAP). Magento's SOAP API makes the platform especially easy to integrate with third-party systems, including a...
Peachtree Accounting: API Leverages Relational Database
Sage Peachtree offers a small-business accounting package that rivals — or exceeds — QuickBooks, or any other small business accounting application. Peachtree's API offers developers the opportunity to sync with a relational database, and perform ...
Generate QR Codes Using Google APIs
Quick response codes are a popular form of a two-dimensional, matrix barcode that is now being used as a marketing tool. Developers that can easily integrate QR codes with existing sites or transactional documentation have an opportunity to add va...
Add the New Twitter 'Follow Button' to Your Site
On May 31, Twitter announced a new site widget, the Follow Button, built for marketers to encourage site visitors to "follow" them on the popular microblogging platform. The Follow Button can be implemented using a simple snippet of JavaScript an...
Shopify Exec on App Store, Developer Opportunities
Innovative, niche apps that plug into cloud platforms represent potential revenue for developers. This could include consumer platforms like iPhone, iPad, Android, Chrome, and Firefox. It can also include ecommerce platforms, like Shopify. That h...
Shopify Developer-Advocate Edward Ocampo-Gooding
Edward Ocampo-Gooding is developer advocate for Shopify by day, and lead organizer of Open Data Ottawa — an Ottawa, Canada development community — ...
32 Web-Browser Development Resource Tools
All web browsers are similar and often it’s the quality and variety of apps that are associated with them that makes one browser rise above the rest. The prospect of developing for a popular web browser is filled with great potential, both creativ...
Using Google’s Calendar Publishing Tools
Google's Calendar Publishing Tools consist of two utilities: embeddable calendars and event publishing. Embeddable calendars are read-only versions of the Google Calendar that can be customized and integrated into a website. The Event Publisher is...
55 Google APIs for Developers and Designers
Google usually has developers and designers in mind when it rolls out a new product or service, as it generally includes an API that can be used to integrate that product easily into a website or application. Below is a list of 55 of Google's mos...
Using Facebook's API to Register Users
Facebook has more than 500 million users — half of which log in to Facebook on any given day. It can make sense, therefore, to let users log in or even register for a site using their Facebook credentials. What's more, Facebook offers an excelle...
Implementing Google's reCAPTCHA Widget
By now, most developers are familiar with CAPTCHA and how it is used to prevent spam, protect registration pages, and hide email addresses. In this article, I am going to explain how to integrate the Google reCAPTCHA widget into a website. I’ll ...
Using Google Charts to Create Custom Graphs
Statistics are an important part of any ecommerce website. By measuring the results of our shops, we can find out how we are doing and what we have to change. Statistics are usually described through tables or graphs. To create a graph system fr...
Creating Dashboards with the Google Analytics Data-Export API
A dashboard is a convenient way to organize the tools that monitor a website’s health. Instead of calling up each application separately, dashboards condense a lot of useful information into one page. Managers can check the status of their website...
Subscriptions and Payment Plans with PayPal’s Adaptive Payments API
Have you ever considered instituting a payment or layaway plan for a site? The plan could be something like, “Pay 50 percent now and the remainder in 12 monthly payments.” How about a subscription service for digital downloads or any other online ...