{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Toksyuryel (toksyuryel)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jul-12 02:23:47 UTC","author_name":"Toksyuryel (toksyuryel)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/toksyuryel","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/1716918","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/798\" class=\"url\" title=\"Ice Cream Stepman\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">redenchilada<\/span><\/a><\/span> Application Programming Interface: an Interface for Programming your Application. It's what you use when you're working with a library of some form or another to make use of that library's code in a way that hopefully doesn't make you want to tear your hair out (no guarantees on that though- if it's a badly-designed API, you'll probably still incur some hair loss)"}