{"id":7036,"date":"2013-02-27T17:20:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7036"},"modified":"2013-02-28T16:30:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T21:30:05","slug":"the-little-manual-of-api-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/the-little-manual-of-api-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Manual of API Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trolltech, developers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qt_(framework)\">Qt framework<\/a>, have written what looks like a useful PDF guide called <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.in.tum.de\/~blanchet\/api-design.pdf\">The Little Manual of API Design<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cocoalabs\/status\/306086503543615488\">Lemont Washington<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/curentur\/status\/306128775693877249\">@curentur<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Update (2013-02-28): <a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/api_design\/\">Lukas Mathis<\/a> comments.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trolltech, developers of the Qt framework, have written what looks like a useful PDF guide called The Little Manual of API Design (via Lemont Washington and @curentur). Update (2013-02-28): Lukas Mathis comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[326,71,349],"class_list":["post-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-c-plus-plus","tag-programming","tag-qt"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7056,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions\/7056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}