Introducing the new guy and a new getting started tutorial!

Wed, 12/21/2011 - 15:08 — Steven Citron-Pousty

Greetings awesome LinkedIn developers:

I would like to take this chance to introduce myself as the newest member on the developer relations team. My name is Steve Citron-Pousty and I joined the team in early November. My main areas of technical expertise are Java, mobile, spatial analysis and software, data munging, and consulting. I have been doing spatial related work since 1989, programming since 1997, and been a developer advocate since 2005. Hopefully you will see me around the forums and at shows helping you to understand the LinkedIn APIs and behind the scenes I will be advocating on your behalf to our internal team.

Given that my background is in the geospatial/location-based-services space I have been spending my ramp up time here “acting” like the developer new to the LinkedIn APIs. As part of this time, I have worked with the other developer advocates to help produce SHINY & NEW getting started documents for our REST API. They are intended for developers new to the LinkedIn REST API and walks you through the basic steps of working with the REST API. We start with making sure OAuth calls are working properly, then moving on to how to query the API, then write to the API (which is similar to updates and deletes), and then finally showing some basic debugging steps. The docs include code samples in 3 languages/platforms right now (Python, PHP, and Java). We hope to expand the list of languages as time permits.

We look forward to suggestions on this document, other languages you think we should add to the getting started document, and other things you think we could do help you with the LinkedIn APIs.

Thanks and happy coding...
Steve

P.S. you can follow me on twitter @TheSteve0, where I talk about everything from being a dad, to programming, to LinkedIn

Comments

Tue, 12/27/2011 - 10:46 — Dawn Julien, CV...

Hi Steve,
As the newest member I would imagine that you are contributing new ideas all the time now but are also experiencing a huge learning curve. I am a novice LinkedIn user without much experience in what can and can not be accomplished with the applications that are currently available on my LinkedIn site, never the less I have been diligent in my exploration. I have a project that I am excited to share on my profile but....when I try to upload my Power Point presentation I loose the tint bit (one slide) animation I have included. Wish I could show you what I mean. I found Slideshark and it promises to keep font, animation etc intact on ipads, but Slideshark is not yet available on LinkedIn. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My email is d.julien@lycos.com Thanks!

Fri, 12/30/2011 - 00:47 — Pushpendra Sing...

Hi,

I have developed some applications on facebook and now i am trying to make similar api in linkedin, but i am getting the canvas page. please help

Regards,
Pushpendra

Thu, 01/12/2012 - 08:35 — Milton Adrian P...

hi steven, i have one doubt about how to get the information from the API in IOS, i dont thing that this is the correct place to formulate the question but i cant find how to post a question in the forum, i hope you can help me with my issue, i want to retrieve the date-of-birth field but i always get null, i put this information public to all in my profile, but i still got null, i am using the example of lee whitney and i am using this url to receive the data: https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~:public:(id,first-name,last-name,industry,headline,date-of-birth,location:(name)) and this to show it in the uitextfield:NSDictionary *profile = [notification userInfo];
if ( profile )
{
name.text = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@ %@",
[profile objectForKey:@"location"], [profile objectForKey:@"lastName"]];
headline.text = [profile objectForKey:@"date-of-birth"];
}

what i'm doing wrong?

thanks in advantage

Thu, 02/02/2012 - 09:23 — Tunisie Franchise

Hi Steve,

Using the jobs plugin is there a way to filter and post only specific jobs?

Thank you

Tue, 02/07/2012 - 02:01 — Nasser AlMusallam

Why doesen't linkedin provide a global map and locations of our existing peers and colleagues?

Fri, 02/17/2012 - 03:09 — srinivasa rao r...

ear Steven,
I am developing the android app which contains LinkedIn integration, up to login every thing working fine after it is showing the following one:
Grant 1push access to your LinkedIn Account "srinivasa rao ramisetty"
Only allow access if you trust this application with your liked in network information

Until Revoked change

with button "OK I'll Allow it", and cancel button,
when I clicked on "OK I'll Allow it"->it is showing "we are unable to find the authorization token" can u help me out from this problem.

Tue, 02/21/2012 - 20:52 — Peter Mesnik

Hi Steve,
Are we getting close to being able to post status updates to Company pages via the API?
Thanks,
-Peter

Wed, 04/11/2012 - 05:11 — Chcaldorini Cap...

i fuck nigerian internet cheaters !!!! they bastards are fucking shit, i kill those monkeys !!

Fri, 04/27/2012 - 10:43 — Rupert Schmidtberg

Hi Steve,

I lead product management at TimeTrade Systems. We provide online appointment scheduling solutions for businesses. Can you direct me to resources which explain how to create an App for LinkedIn similar to TripIt and Amazon?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Rupert Schmidtberg
VP Products

Mon, 05/14/2012 - 16:21 — Abdullah Bacus

Hey Steve. I would like to contact someone who can assist me with API's for a new company website that we're creating. Can you point me in the right direction. We're willing to pay LinkedIn any fee that's required to maintain this professional relationship.