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16th August 2010 - Link Blog

Writing Bulletproof Apps with API Errorpoints. This is a very good idea: Web APIs should offer special API endpoints for simulating each of the possible errors that might be returned by the production API.

Posted 16th August 2010 at 7:12 pm

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