front matter

 

preface

I have been a professional software developer, off and on, for about 20 years now, and I’ve worked with a wide variety of APIs over those years. My youth was spent hacking together adventure games in BASIC and a little Z80 machine code, with no concern that anyone else would ever use my code, let alone need to interface with it. It wasn’t until I joined IBM in 1999 as a pre-university employee (affectionately known as “pooeys”) that I first encountered code that was written to be used by others. I remember a summer spent valiantly trying to integrate a C++ networking library into a testing framework with only a terse email from the author to guide me. In those days I was more concerned with deciphering inscrutable compiler error messages than thinking about security.

acknowledgments

 
 
 

about this book

 
 
 

Who should read this book

 
 
 

How this book is organized: A roadmap

 
 

About the code

 

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about the author

 
 
 

about the cover illustration

 
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