New Rellic now for Mobile Apps too

New Relic is a popular tool for web developers to monitor server load and crashes.

Recently, they have introduced New Relic for Mobile!

Similar to what it does for web developers, it now helps mobile developers track API calls (how long it took) and deliver crash reports.

This is however, not new. Crittercism and Crashlytics have been available for a long time.

I personally recommend Crashlytics, since they have been acquired by Twitter recently, and hence even their Enterprise version is free.

An App for Hosting Hackathons

If you are organizing an hackathon, you could use hackathon.io to create and manage the event.

It covers common activities such as:

• Invite participants
• Invite sponsors
• Invite judge
• Create schedule
• Write rules
• Feed for event
• Judging tools (vote)

Develop iPad Games Using an iPad - for non-programmer

Turned out there's even a tool, in the form of an iPad app, for building iPad games!

Check out Codea (formerly Codify) on the App Store.

Google OAuth 2.0 Playground

Google has published a nice tools for OAuth 2.0. They call it OAuth 2.0 Playground.

It provides an Interface for 3-steps to calling an OAuth powered API.

First, you get require the authorization code with a certain scope of use. Second, you exchange an access token with the code. Lastly, you call the RESTful API with the access token.

Free API management tool

When designing API for a web service, the first decision is not about trivial things such as to use JSON or XML, or to use RESTful or SOAP. 

API providers should first decide about using API management tools that offers them a package –  developer portal, security access control, analytics & reporting, billing, etc

http://www.3scale.net/ is one tool that provides that. At less than 50 requests per day, it is free. Pretty meager, but ya, it is free.

(anway, JSON and RESTful should be the modern way to go)