http://sldn.softlayer.com SoftLayer API Developer Network Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:51:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en pre { display: block; background:#dddddd; border: 1px solid #999999; padding: 5px; }An interesting facet of the development and systems administration business is the number of 80% projects that build up over time. An 80% project is that awesome library, script, rewrite, new system, or what have you that's cooling on ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/02/2010/something-new-for-your-api-toolbox/ After a three hour flight that took five hours from LA to Dallas I'm finally home from the Southern California Linux Expo. This was SCaLE's 8th show, an evolution that started as a meeting of Linux User Groups from the Los Angeles area that grew into one of the largest ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/02/2010/another-expo-in-the-bag/ pre { display: block; background:#dddddd; border: 1px solid #999999; padding: 5px; }Object Masks, Filters, and Other V3 Black Magic Everyone has heard the age old saying for any given job you need to have the right tool. Just as most of us have tried to use the flat rounded edge of ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/02/2010/object-masks-and-filters-in-c-sharp/ Here at SoftLayer, we have a lot of things that we need to keep track of. It's not just payments, servers, rack slots, network ports, processors, hard drives, RAM sticks, and operating systems, it's also bandwidth, monitoring, network intrusions, firewall logs, VPN access logs, API access, user history, and a ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/09/2009/building-the-data-warehouse/ We've opened up the backend API that powers our CloudLayer Storage systems for y'all. Those of you who want more control over your cloud storage accounts and content should definitely check this out. We've got instructions conveniently hosted on our cloud systems: CloudLayer™ Storage API v.1 Documentation (1.3MB) This is a bit of ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/07/2009/cloudlayer-storage-backend-api-is-now-available/ Every year I get the same question from my customers, "Hey Klaude, are we going to see you at HostingCon this year?". Every year I respond with the same thing, "I have no idea. I'll ask!". Every year I hear from my management, "Not this year, Kevin." after I ask ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/07/2009/guess-whos-coming-to-hostingcon/ CloudLayer Storage is billed as providing "anytime, anywhere access to your data". This isn’t just referring to human interfaces, but also includes automated interfaces. One easy way to automate access to CloudLayer Storage is through curl. Curl is available as a command-line tool in most every operating system and ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/07/2009/79/ If you haven't done so yet, please migrate your apps and scripts based on version 1 of the SoftLayer API to version 3. Version 3 is chock full of tools and methods that touch every single facet of your servers, your account, and our business. If you've been following threads ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/05/2009/api-v1-is-going-dark-on-august-1-migrate-your-apps-everyone/ I've been working with quite a few PHP users on our forums over the past few months. One thing I love is the sheer variety of tasks you guys are accomplishing. One thing I don't really love is how y'all use the sample code we provided when we launched our ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/02/2009/the-start-of-something-good/ code { display: block; background:#dddddd; border: 1px solid #999999; padding: 5px; }Many developers, even experienced ones, are confused by the way PHP handles arrays in foreach loops. In the standard foreach loop, PHP makes a copy of the array that is used in the loop. The copy is ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/01/2009/php-memory-management-in-foreach/