http://www.thebuzzmedia.com Video Games, Movies and Technology Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:32:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/designing-a-secure-rest-api-without-oauth-authentication/ http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/designing-a-secure-rest-api-without-oauth-authentication/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:32:31 +0000 Riyad Kalla http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/?p=16622

Situation You want to develop a RESTful web API for developers that is secure to use, but doesn’t require the complexity of OAuth and takes a simple “pass the credentials in the query” approach… or something equally-as-easy for people to use, but it needs to be secure. You are a smart guy, so you start [...]]]> http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/designing-a-secure-rest-api-without-oauth-authentication/feed/ 102 http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/netflix-releases-developer-api-surprisingly-powerful/ http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/netflix-releases-developer-api-surprisingly-powerful/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:52:43 +0000 Riyad Kalla http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/?p=290

Netflix released it’s long-awaited developer API yesterday (JavaScript, REST) and to a lot of people’s surprise, was quite a bit more open-ended than expected: We’re pleased to announce the availability of the Netflix API. The team has been hard at work on this and we’re glad we can finally let people see what we’ve built. [...]]]> http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/netflix-releases-developer-api-surprisingly-powerful/feed/ 0