Is there any sandbox for stackoverflow APi? - testing

Did anyone ever met links to StackOverflow sandbox for their own API?
I have found couple of questions which were made for testing answers( https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51812/the-api-sandbox) , but no way to test questions.

Well, it seems that there is no such thing as sandbox for stackoverlow API. Just make a test question/answer, mark them properly and then delete.

For anyone who will be asearching for sandbox. You can do as mentioned above and then delete the question. You can also make api for the answer and make similar for question (they are not that much different). The same qnswer was received at meta.

That is awesome! I reallyy hope that will work and I would be able to test. Also, probably anyone can use this answer as testing one. Any way, that's just an offer!

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Are there any more example regard how to use Updates?

I have been trying to improve my application by incorporating updates. However, the current documentation is very confusing on for example how updates would be structure for a chat or a channel.
Any advice on this topic would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance!
Things have changed a lot, but the official Telethon documentation probably explains them good enough now.
You can also view single-file Telethon examples or real world Telethon projects. Maybe I'm a bit late for the answer but hopefully helps other people :)

Advanced Ajax with RoR and jQuery UI

I don't have much web development practical experience although I had studied a lot on the web (Treehouse, CodeSchool, other tutorials and articles).
I have found some explanations on how to use Ajax with RoR and jQuery. But I'm having difficulties to understand how to solve my problem as the explanations often use jquery-ujs that I suppose I can't use in my case.
My problem is difficult to explain here but is similar to implementing this shopping cart on RoR, including more parameters like price
The jQuery UI is working for me in my RoR application. What is missing is the AJAX part and how to make it work with RoR
I have found some questions here on StackOverflow that is about this topic but it didn't helped much as they are probably for more advanced users.
So, I believe that the best help would be a tutorial or book or some other reference that is more similar to my problem. However any advice or other kind of directions may help
After struggling a lot, finally I solved my problem.
I will post here the resources and some tricks that helped me. I hope it can help others. StackOverflow didn't let me post all the links. For this reason, I just gave some hints that may help to find some resources.
About the jQuery Ajax concepts, I recommend Code School jquery course "The Return Flight".
The second thing that I think helps is learn to debug. Firebug helped me a log to debug the client side/javascript/Ajax. This link may help on that:
http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2642/debugging-tips-how-to-debug-ajax-requests-using-mozilla-firefox-and-firebug
Since the problem may be to debug RoR. Look for a RailCast on the subject.
One of the things that I took some time is if it would be better to use $.ajax(), $.post(), $.get() or $.getJSON(). The link below may explain better but to sum it up, $.ajax() is the more generic one and the other are simpler ones and that call $.ajax() with specific parameters.
Difference between $.post and $.ajax?
It is important to understand how RoR routing works to call the right url with the right $.ajax() type. "rake routes" may help.
This link may also help to use the right $.ajax() type.
http://old.thoughtsincomputation.com/posts/understanding-rest-in-rails-3
Finally, to send the right format from the javascript to RoR controller, this link may help:
How to send and store data to rails through jquery/ajax as a JSON object?

Does anyone know a better alternative to Google Translate API?

I already did similar search terms for this topic in this forum.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6151668/alternative-to-google-translate-api
But that post is a bit old.. Things may have changed for about a year. And I wonder does anybody know if there's any better REST-based API service that I can use out there since that post was last posted.
Thanks.
I guess Bing translator could be the substitute that u are looking for.
I was looking for alternatives as well and came across a npm package called google-translate-api-browser which does work for my small project, but I can't assure big data translations or requests not being throttled

Does anyone have a SlickGrid wrapper for Haxe?

I am using the Haxe multi-platform programming tool (http://haxe.org) which, among other things, can generate JavaScript output. I would like to know if anyone has already done a "wrapper" library to interface Haxe with SlickGrid.
Doesn't look like one exists yet... sorry!
Unless someone has made one but just not shared it. Could be worth asking on the haxe mailing list / google group? You'll get a wider audience than on stack overflow.
If it looks like no one has done it, you can write your own... it's probably quite do-able. And not too hard either. I'd be happy to help you figure it out as you go... cause I might want to use it one day too :)
If you do decide to take that route I think the best option is to post on the mailing list, and we can help you out from there. There's also a document on the wiki with some instructions:
http://haxe.org/doc/js/extern_libraries
This stuff is always a bit daunting when you first get started, but don't be afraid to ask for help and hopefully you'll be up and running in no time.

https for facebook applications

Read a lot about the new guidelines for facebook developer,
but i got know real answer about this:
Do I realy need a https-website to get an app running?
Anyone got it running via ssl-proxy?
Thx Sven
Not really a stackoverflow.com question, nor is this (1) something not covered by Facebook already (see http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/497/). In short, yes, you must have SSL-ready server.
As for (2) stackoverflow.com is not a platform meant to advertise products. Your most likely answer is http://godaddy.com (personally not using any godaddy.com services and would not recommend them for any other reason that price).
There are a lot of alternatives, e.g. http://networksolutions.com, http://rapidssl.com (see http://www.cheapssls.com/ for more offers).