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sunkarapk

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    Comment #8401355

    Currently Reading: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11721966-good-strategy-b...

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    Comment #8243605

    People from assembly fronts the initial costs of running a company/product and take 25% of the profits every month once it's profitable. Their FAQ is at https://assembly.com/help/b…

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    Comment #7660273

    No, as far as I know, alpaca is the first of its type. As the author of the code, I can guarantee good quality of the generated client code. I have written the templates such that …

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    Comment #7658612

    I think https://github.com/pksunkara/alpaca is a good starting point. Given a web API, it generates client libraries in ruby, python, php and node.js

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    Comment #7545396

    God and Luck both doesn't exist.

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    Comment #7271849

    I have been using this since the beginning for my open source project https://github.com/pksunkara/alpaca . They provide very good support. And the features are awesome. Short stor…

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    Comment #7153383

    Have you guys looked at https://github.com/pksunkara/alpaca to generate API client libraries (SDK) instead of spending time on developing them?

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    Comment #7007876

    You can go through the generated code examples at https://github.com/alpaca-api . I tried to make them a lot more readable. :)

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    Comment #7006712

    If you are talking about API definition, there need not be many changes since api.json do not define any objects. If you are talking about the code of the program, they wont be cha…

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    Comment #7006255

    I agree its nice to do it that way. But I found that not all APIs use hypermedia format. So, I did it this way. :)

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    Comment #7006242

    I am just a single guy. I always make a point to reply back to issues/pull-requests on my open source projects within 24hrs. Yes, sometimes I fail to make it. But it's a rule I wan…

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    Comment #7006098

    JSON Schema is too complex for this project. I just chose the fields which needs to be populated so that I can generate the code.

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    Comment #7005740

    Tests is one of the main priority and I am planning to do them soon. This current program just a small step in the right direction. :) EDIT: Currently, I have a test suite at https…

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    Comment #7005639

    Being a WSDL is not the aim here. Generating client libraries in multiple programming languages is. But, to do that I need a format using which people can define their API. I used …

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    Comment #7005569

    I tried searching for a program which generates client libraries in different programming languages and failed. Could you please link if something does it? From what I gather, the …

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    Comment #7005494

    Currently, I am supporting 3 authentication strategies. Basic, Token in header and OAUTH. These will cover most of the APIs. And I am open to include other kind of authentication s…

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    Comment #7005425

    Author here. I covered almost everything in the documentation. And there is also a small example which is hosted at https://github.com/alpaca-api . Please ask if you have any quest…

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    Comment #6349095

    The problem with these kind of competitions is replayability. I would love to see a programming game which is PvP and has good replayability.

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    Comment #6273465

    Something like this what I think github needs. Github should complement developers working using the cli. (git-send-email, git-format-patch, git-am). I hope they concentrate on thi…

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