API Design Webinar – Video and Slides

This is the recording of a webinar I presented to the OpenText R&D staff. It summarizes the material of the nine articles (totaling approximately 35 printed pages) published so far:

• Why developer-friendliness is central to API design
• Considering the perspective of the caller
• Keeping it simple
• Striving for consistency
• Choosing memorable names
• Specifying behavior
• Making it safe
• Anticipating evolution
• Writing helpful API documentation

If you had no time to read the articles, perhaps you can spare 60 minutes to watch the video. If not, you can browse the slides to get an overall idea of the topics covered so far.  I apologize for the quality of the recording made over a regular phone line by our teleconferencing provider.  I do not apologize for my Hungarian accent, which is, of course, entirely  intentional…

Video Recording

Slides

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