Tuesday, November 23, 2004
docs a-missin'
Wanna know a really crappy thing about being a developer:
Trying to build something that uses an undocumented ( in this case poorly documented is roughly equivalent to completely undocumented) API.
If you're going to exposes something that lets other developers use the functionality of your app from their own app, TELL THEM HOW IT WORKS!!!! Write down some instructions. And when you've decided you don't want to continue to update the rest of the world about what's going on with your API... STOP EXPOSING IT!!!!! Geez! It's so hard and frustrating and time consuming to write software around a crappy API that does unexpected/undocumented things.
Trying to build something that uses an undocumented ( in this case poorly documented is roughly equivalent to completely undocumented) API.
If you're going to exposes something that lets other developers use the functionality of your app from their own app, TELL THEM HOW IT WORKS!!!! Write down some instructions. And when you've decided you don't want to continue to update the rest of the world about what's going on with your API... STOP EXPOSING IT!!!!! Geez! It's so hard and frustrating and time consuming to write software around a crappy API that does unexpected/undocumented things.
