When considering integrating with REST based API’s, the first approach should always be how do I make my design non transactional. Non transactional means that the API can be called over and over again within any negative affect. Banking systems need to be transactional. If a transaction was processed more than once, that would be… Read More »
One of the key aspects when making API calls is to keep them as simple as possible. This means if you are an API consumer, you want to be able to retrieve data on demand and not have to worry about how many times you have retrieved it, or that you have to retrieve it… Read More »
If you are integrating with XERO, then the Xero API previewer is a fantastic tool to quickly check query formats, data formats and data values as well. It returns real data from the account you logged in as and you can even copy and paste the results handraulically into another system for processing. The only… Read More »
I was having a look at a Zapier and tried one out. I choose Outlook Calendar to Google Calendar because I am not an Outlook fan but I have to use it for work. I use IMAP to get my work emails and as a result, forgo the calendar sync. It works pretty well and… Read More »