Eat your own dogfood
July 2, 2008
If you’re developing a web service of any kind, eat your own dogfood. Build something using your web service. In fact, build many things using your web service. Do it early and often before you release your web service to the public. Find out what sucks about your web service, what’s broken and what’s simply downright inconvenient about your web service and then fix it. If you find you want to murder someone while using your own web service, imagine what your consumers will think of it.
All too often I find myself running into web services that are inconvenient to use from a developer standpoint. Often it’s because the people implementing the web service build whatever’s convenient for them. Spend some time building applications using your web service, make a list of the things that were harder than they should have been and then go fix them. Your users will thank you.
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mattlink | July 11, 2008 at 8:13 am
well I would like to know if I could help, I read in your blog some interesting articles, but especially’m more interested in what yahoo mail web services, I would like to know if I could help them to initiate in the mail from yahoo, I mean, How to gain access to these services?, But I tried but not exit the authentication, I am programming in Java 1.4 and axis 1.4, I would like to know if I could teach some classes for example, how do the Soap and the Client you need, thanks in advance for your understanding …