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thorfinn ([personal profile] thorfinn) wrote2009-08-12 02:35 pm
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How to Design a Good API

This is one of the best programming talks I have seen, ever.

If you do any software development, programming, or even scriptwriting, you need to watch the whole hour of this.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw

ACM citation, including the great abstract: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1176622

Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3733345136856180693

Slides Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/33655/How-to-Design-a-Good-API-and-Why-it-Matters

Slides PDF: http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdf

Alternate video, maybe: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/effective-api-design

[identity profile] etfb.livejournal.com 2009-08-12 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Sadly, I work for fascists. Can you post the direct link? Provided it's not YouTube, I may be able to access it then, but via LJ all embedding is verboten.