Archive for September, 2006

XML-RPC deprecation?

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

This wouldn’t happen for a long time, but we’re considering deprecating XML-RPC, and here’s why:

The majority of new applications using the API are using REST rather than XML-RPC.
REST is far easier to develop for and debug - you just use any web browser.
REST responses are more human-readable, making it easier to develop
Maintaining XML-RPC takes a [...]

New beta release - September 28th, 2006

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

After far too long, we’ve released an update to v1.1.1, our current beta release, that fixes some bugs and adds some functionality. I’m hoping we can wrap this one up, flag it as ‘released’ rather than beta, and move on.
This release is thanks to devbobo and all his hard work. He’s now SmugMug’s [...]