Learn Rest API

Use Rest APIs to make it easier for applications to communicate with each other. These tutorials show you how to code an API using various frameworks and approaches.

All Rest API tutorials:

  1. Building With the Twitter API: Getting Started

    Building With the Twitter API: Getting Started

    Tutorial Advanced

    Learn the Twitter API with PHP using a standalone, open-source Yii application called Birdcage.

  2. Using Ruby to Program Arduino

    Using Ruby to Program Arduino

    Tutorial Beginner

    This article explains the role of Arduino in the 'Internet of Things' or 'Physical Computing' and goes on to show how Ruby can be used to play with the Arduino.

  3. How to Create an Advanced Twitter Widget

    How to Create an Advanced Twitter Widget

    Tutorial Beginner

    As of March 2011, the current average number of "Tweets" the world sends per day is 140 million. This tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom Twitter...

  4. 10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter With Your Website

    10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter With Your Website

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Web developers with social media savvy are in hot demand. Imagine what it would be like to promise your clients a web presence that is fully integrated with...