This book’s primary focus is on designing hypermedia APIs. That may seem a bit strange to some readers. There are many books on programming languages, data storage systems, web frameworks, etc. This is not one of those books. Instead, this book covers the nature of the messages passed between client and server, and how to improve...

The Linked Open Data Project started just four years ago in 2007. In that short time Linked Data has grown into an almost mainstream activity for many governments around the world. As of this writing, the US Government’s open data site listed twenty one countries whose governments publish open data regarding the operations of...

The present volume...

The idea of a writing a book about Android development can be somewhat futile at times, considering the pace at which Android continues to expand, morph, and change. What started out as a book project a few years ago has now become a series of updates to the original work with the page count nearly double the original project—...

The book starts with recipes on simplifying the plugin development process followed by...

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