User:Salil

Identity
Name : Salil Email : salilpa007@gmail.com Project Title : developing an API sandbox environment

Contact/working info
Timezone : UTC +5:30 hours Typical working hours : 1600 - 0200 (flexible) IRC : _Salil_ on Freenode Gtalk : salilpa007@gmail.com Skype : salil.p.a Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/salilpa

API Sandbox environment
aim of the project is to make an api sandbox environment where developers can test their code without writing anything. The api sandbox will allow the users to select individual methods and find its parameters and test them using a simple to use gui.

About Me
I am a third year undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur. I have been working as a web developer for the past three years. I have developed many websites and web apps during this period. I am currently the web team head of Kshitij and samudramanthan. I am very passionate about programming and have taken additional courses in Database engineering, Foundations of computation, Algorithms. I am very proficient in PHP, MYSQL, JavaScript and CSS. I have earlier made apps that use mediawiki api, facebook api, flickr api, yahoo YQL and google api. I am also experienced in JQuery and have used it to enhance the usability of the websites i designed.

Home page

 * will consist of a dropdown which consists of all the methods supported by mediawiki api.
 * this page will be up-to date and will automatically detect new methods that are added to the api. the content will be directly taken from api page
 * a small documentation shall be provided for each method in this page
 * documentation shall change instantaneously with selection of a method. this effect shall be achieved by loading full documentation and making the css code as display:none for all other divs except the selected method
 * on clicking the button go, the page shall go to the method's page
 * home page mock up : mock up