Blogger Data API

Developer's Guide: Protocol

Google has an API for Blogger. This will make it easier to mass produce blogs, and, thus, make it easier for spammers to create many entries. I wonder what the limitations and terms & conditions for use of Blogger are... Is it against the T&C to post blogs selling products? What is considered an actual entry versus spam?

Developer's Guide

Wikipedia User Page - Adam Cox

Wikipedia - User Generated Encyclopedia Website

Wikipedia is a website with a large encyclopedia built by the visitors to the website. It is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit."

Wikipedia is built on the Mediawiki free and open-source platform. You can help support this platform by helping to build the platform by fixing and adding the content. You can also support this project by making donations at Wikimedia Foundation.

As a repeated visitor to this site, I have found the content very educational. As a software engineer, I feel that the site lacks code samples. The few samples up there, are very short. But, the site is an encyclopedia and not meant for code samples.

I have contributed several edits to this site and you can find these edits by visiting Adam Cox's Wikipedia User Page. I have not yet added any articles, but I have edited existing articles. Hopefully, by the time you are reading this, I will have contributed some useful articles.

PHP

PHP is a scripting language particularly designed for web development. It can be used for some server administration as well. There are many pros and, unfortunately, many cons for using PHP. Some of the pros are that it is free, open-source, easy-to-use, powerful, easy to find code samples, tutorials, and documentation, and many others. Some of the cons are that it is easy to write "bad" code with, it is slow, it is hard to find out what your code is doing internally, and bugs can potentially exist. PHP is widely used and respected amongst the development community. PHP 5 has the power to be object-oriented and PHP 6 is even heading further in that direction. It is easy to set PHP up on a Linux, Mac, or Windows machine. It works seamlessly with Apache, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

PHP Developer - Boston, MA