Dr Venu Murthy

API in robotic terms is  application programming interface which ofcourse doesn't make any sense.  So to understand that in a simple way lets see what is a GUI, again in robotic terms its Graphic User Interface. i.e what ever action you want to take a button or something of the sort could be clicked. Like to close a browser you would take the mouse pointer to the x on the window.  However if it was the end of your day and you were closing 20 such windows of various apps on your laptop, you know the pain of it. However if you could just automate it!  Now imagine if there were 2000 such windows to be closed, you would want your computer do something about it but how will you tell your computer on what to do? This is were the APIs come into picture, they are a programatic way of doing manual things on computers.  Basically APIs are a replacement for GUI if you want to automate a lot of stuff.  Eg.  If you are Google apps admin with no LDAP sync and etc and ne

I wonder where I was all these days and why did I not blog. And as its human to give excuses, I would say that the companies I worked for never gave me the leisure to either read a blog or post one in peace. But I am going to force myself to share all that I've learnt so far, as this is the best way for me to give back to the internet in my humble what it has given me for more than a decade.