--- title: "The Friday Roundup: APIs, Drupal Drama, and DIWD Fantasies" url: "/articles/the-friday-roundup-apis-drupal-drama-and-diwd-fantasies" type: article date: 2011-09-23 updated: 2014-05-04 --- # The Friday Roundup: APIs, Drupal Drama, and DIWD Fantasies # The Friday Roundup: APIs, Drupal Drama, and DIWD Fantasies Links Corralled by Lullabots By [ Jeff Eaton ](/about/jeff-eaton) September 23, 2011 ### FCC Sponsors API Work The recent launch of a newly-redesigned [FCC.gov](http://seabourneinc.com/projects/fcc/) web site is a big win for Drupal, and a great example of public-access APIs being built into large government web sites. Seabourne Inc.'s post about the migration also details the new contrib module, [Content API,](http://drupal.org/project/contentapi) that the project spawned. Built on top of the popular Services module, it automatically exposes select content types on a Drupal site via a REST interface. A little bird told the Lullabout Roundup Cowboy that a D7 version of the module is coming soon, as well... ### Give it a REST Speaking of REST and web APIs, [an interesting article by designer Luke Wroblewski](https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1392) discusses the potential for API driven and server-side tools to simplify the implementation of responsive web designs. Confused? Check out [Jared Ponchot's article on responsive design](https://www.lullabot.com/articles/responsive-adaptive-web-design), and developer Steve Klabnic's article, [Nobody understands REST.](http://blog.steveklabnik.com/2011/07/03/nobody-understands-rest-or-http.html) ### All Documentation Isn't Equal ProgrammableWeb has a great [guide to writing API documentation](http://blog.programmableweb.com/2011/09/12/the-six-pillars-of-complete-developer-documentation/) for developers. Helping developers leverage a set of tools requires more than just PHPDoc, and this article outlines the essentials. Given the explosive growth of API and "framework" style modules in the Drupal ecosystem, this guide should be a new Bible! ### Drupal Dramarama Since DrupalCon London in August, blog posts and debates about [the future direction](http://www.unleashedmind.com/en/blog/sun/the-drupal-crisis) of Drupal [have been](http://drupal4hu.com/node/302) *[hot stuff](http://ca.tchpole.net/node/4).* Kent Bye's [Drupal Drama podcast](https://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/drupalizeme-podcast/drupal-drama-burnout-d7-retrospective-product-vs-framework-debate) and [Jeff Eaton's Drupal 8](https://www.lullabot.com/articles/understanding-8-where-drupal-is-and-where-its-going) article here on Lullabot.com attempt to summarize what's up. For those nervous about the discussions, taking a peek at [other open source projects'](https://www.scribd.com/doc/37113340/Why-Django-Sucks-and-How-we-Can-Fix-it) internal debates [might put things in perspective](https://odino.org/367/why-joomla-sucks-why-the-joomla-platform-sucks-even-harder-and-how-we-can-fix-this/)... ### News of the Web World For those seeking for news beyond the Drupal sphere, it's been a busy couple of weeks. Twitter has released Bootstrap, [a new HTML/CSS framework](http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/) that unifies various typographic and layout elements. The big-data guys over at Development Seed have written about their freshly designed web site, [built using the Jekyll page rendering framework](https://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/09/09/jekyll-github-pages/): it spits out static files and stores its data on GitHub! Meanwhile, scientists at UC Berkeley have figured out [how to reconstruct video from human brain activity...](http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/) Can a FieldAPI "MRI Input widget" for media fields be far behind? ### Fantasy Sites Galore Finally, the Lullabots have been hard at work prepping for the October 12th-14th [Do It With Drupal conference.](http://doitwithdrupal.com) The ever-popular "Fantasy Sites" track will feature a series of Drupal-powered clones of well-known web sites, including [NetFlix](http://2011.doitwithdrupal.com/blog/learn-build-your-own-netflix-diwd-2011), [Meetup.com](http://2011.doitwithdrupal.com/blog/learn-build-meetupcom-do-it-drupal), and more. Rumor has it Joe Shindelar, the [mastermind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPIHzH0eMkI) behind the [Marquee Module](https://github.com/eojthebrave/marquee), is working on [a fantasy site of his own...](https://evernote.com/skitch) Published in: - [ News ](/topics/news) You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. ## Get in touch with us ### Tell us about your project. We'd love to hear from you! First Name Last Name Your email address Your organization How you heard about us Tell us more Leave this field blank