The Disparity between APIs and SDKs

I think it’s time for us all to accept the truth: I’m abandoning the plugin series. I had a functioning proof of concept at my previous job, but I didn’t think to grab it when I left and moved halfway around the world, and I don’t feel like trying to recreate it right now. Maybe I’ll come back to it someday. Instead, today we’re going to talk about APIs and why there are so few SDKs to consume them.

How to Version Assemblies Destined for Nuget

Okay. Seriously. Versioning of third-party Nuget packages has been the bane of my existence for the past week. Nuget declares that packages under its system should follow Sematic Versioning, and that’s great… for the package. But it becomes a problem when the same versioning scheme is followed for the assembly.

Manatee.Json (Part… Oops!

The last time we looked at code, we covered user-defined serialization between data models and JSON. Today, we would have reviewed auto-serialization, but I’ve hit a snag. I recently did some performance testing, and found that Manatee.Json was quite slower than its nemesis, Newtonsoft.Json (or more familiarly, Json.Net).

Manatee.Json (Part 2: Parsing)

We’ve been reviewing my open-source JSON library, Manatee.Json. Last time we built an object model for the language. Today, we’ll cover parsing, or converting a string with JSON content into our object model. Let’s start with a short review of the syntax.

An Introduction to Manateee.Json (Part 1: Object Model)

Today we’re going to start in on my open source JSON library, Manatee.Json. In this post, we’ll quickly review JSON as a language and build an object model.