API’s March 22, 2009
Posted by angelacrilley in API.Tags: API, pipes
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Really. APIs. API sharing. I understand what they do and the outcomes. I think they’re brilliant. Especially the main example we’re being shown about Flickr APIs. It’s like the modern day style for cheating and copying someone elses notes, except it’s legal…with proper consent of course. Sharing is caring. And it saves time usually wasted unecessarily typing in extra and css codes. Why wasn’t I told this before.
But it’s like the process of coca cola. I know the understand it provides an amazing taste and the end result is a quenched thirst, but I’ve only a basic understanding of how they get there or the process. I get as far as combining soda water and syrup. That’s it.
The ‘pipes’ program we looked at in the tutorial, had a bad attitude towards me – or maybe the other way around. In theory, the program worked great. Possibly it was just my computer, but I seemed to have a lot of technical errors going on and the page not registering what I was entering. So frustrating! Does anyone else ever have the desire to personify their computer and start abusing it – sometimes verbally and physically?! As I’ve already started, and hoping I’m not the only one…
Just on my mind…I wonder how many directors or film makers get on set, look at the script, and change their mind about a million times, before deciding the burn the script and wing it because nothing seems to be working. I think that would give a film more impact. Be more spontaneous. And if the mood on set is genuinely tense and confusing, or the actors were scared by the insanity of the director, this could be utilised for the greater good! More directors should do this. Take true emotion and punch it out on film. Agreed?
