Wenham’s API Design Tips

C. Lawrence Wenham compiled a great list of API design tips, including concepts such as naming, consistency, reducing complexity, avoiding side effects, and avoiding boolean arguments. He also advocates for designing an API from the point of view of the client, rather than choosing the solution that’s easier to implement (which is perhaps an obvious statement but still all too commonly violated). This is a concise yet thorough collection of important concepts to bear in mind when you’re designing an API. Well worth a read.

• http://sites.google.com/site/yacoset/Home/api-design-tips