Tagged: API

“Copperr” – My API-Wrapper R Package for Copper™ CRM

copperr is an R package that connects to the Copper™ CRM Platform APIs using tidy principles. The package implements most key actions from their REST API described on Copper’s developer portal here. The package includes what you’d expect to see in an API wrapper:

  • Basic (Username/API-key) Authentication methods, and caching for API details
  • CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) methods for records
  • Query a set of records
  • Retrieve metadata Resources (Custom Fields, Sources, Pipeline Stages, etc.)
  • Retrieve User profiles
  • Helper functions to simplify some common record lookups and manipulations

You can download the package and read the “Getting Started” guide on Github here

I’ll probably provide some examples of the kind of sales data analysis and data cleansing I am using this package for in subsequent posts. Leave a comment if you’re interested in this?

JavaScript is the new C

assembler programming languageIn the days when processing power was expensive, writing assembler code was the benchmark, and high level languages were seen as an extravagance, C was a revelation. Near-assembler fast, bit-level operations, but still an expressive 3GL.
OK, so nothing like JavaScript then?

Wait, that’s only the beginning of the story.

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REST API on a Pi, Part 2: control your GPIO I/O ports over the internet

In Part 1 of this series, we built a simple REST API in JavaScript on our Raspberry Pi.
One of the most useful reasons for providing your Raspberry Pi with a REST API is to expose its input and output ports via the Internet for remote monitoring and control. This will allow you to control your RPi’s inputs and outputs from the browser on any smartphone or PC wherever you are in the world.
So now we will do just this, extending our REST API implementation from part 1 to read and display digital input ports.

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A Node.JS Application on Amazon Cloud. Part 3: A simple Webserver in Javascript using Node, Express, and MongoDB

In this third part of our exercise, we’re going to use the primary AWS EC2 instance on which we installed Node in Part 1, and the database EC2 Instance  we set up in Part 2, as the platform for  building a simple web application server. We are going to code that web server in Javascript, using Node together with the Express and Mongoose Node library packages.

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