Presentation: "How to Design a Good API"

Links from a friend in the biz: "How to Design a Good API & Why It Matters", presentation by Joshua Block, Principal Engineer at Google, and designer of numerous Java platform features.

video: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/effective-api-design

slides w/o video: http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdf  

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This is a very nice presentation for all developers or anyone that uses or follows APIs.

API design - heard this guy at OOPSLA

I agree - I heard this guy at OOPSLA 2006, and he did a very good job. I posted my comments as part of this entry: http://www.imiscommunity.com/more_from_oopsla_2006.

Richard