http://sldn.softlayer.com SoftLayer API Developer Network Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:07:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Most SL customers host websites on our services, and all websites benefit from high search engine rankings. The "old method" of search engine optimization doesn't really work anymore. Back in the days before Google, the best way to get to the top of the search engine rankings was ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/08/2008/the-new-face-of-search-engine-optimization/ Greetings fellow SLAPI enthusiasts! When the call went out for examples I figured why not cowboy up and try my hand at with a .NET example. After all, being an MCP in a largely PHP shop makes me as qualified as anyone. Plus I am constantly pushing ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/03/2008/dot-net-you-bet/ Logan, the chief architect behind our API framework, has been playing with graphviz lately to make pretty pictures out of our codebase and help find areas for improvement. You'd be surprised at how much a map of your object relationships can help make your structure more efficient. These pictures looked ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/03/2008/worth-a-thousand-words/ It's been a little over a week since our API launch. I haven't heard from anyone who doesn't like it, so that must mean we're doing it right. We've been spending time lately catching up on little quirks and documentation bugs. Our first example is up. Its for you Perl ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/03/2008/perls-of-wisdom/ Before I get to the good stuff I want to apologize to you guys. I haven't been active in my API evangelism as of late. Heck, as of the last few months. Well here's why. I am extremely ecstatic to announce the release of SoftLayer's API version 3.0! This has ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/03/2008/and-now-for-something-completely-different/ In preparation for the new Seattle launch this Monday we've updated getHardwareList() to return a "Location" string at the end of the return array. Location reads "Dallas" for servers in Dallas and strangely enough it reads "Seattle" for servers in Seattle. It's great to see all this prep-work coming together, ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/12/2007/wheres-the-beef/ By now I hope y'all have heard the big announcement about our new Seattle datacenter. We in the dev team got wind of it a few weeks back during one of our super-exciting and ever-informative departmental meetings. The news was met with cheers and sighs. Cheers came because, hey, the ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/12/2007/gearing-up-for-the-rainy-city/ (This post refers to SoftLayer API version 1. Check out API version 3 for our latest updates.) Where has the time gone? We've been busy in the devCave working out some big projects and improving what we've got. In the mean time here's some new API features for ya'll to try ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/09/2007/catching-up/ (This post refers to SoftLayer API version 1. Check out API version 3 for our latest updates.) We've updated the API again! This latest refresh sports: fixed: getBandwidthList()'s output now mirrors the estimated and projected bandwidth amounts measured by our management portal. fixed: Hostnames and domain names in server names are now separated ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/08/2007/revenge-of-the-bugfixes/ (This post refers to SoftLayer API version 1. Check out API version 3 for our latest updates.) I think we on the SLDN development team have it pretty lucky. You can't beat developing at a datacenter where there are umpteen, wonderful servers to test your code on. Need to reboot a ... http://sldn.softlayer.com/07/2007/go-play-in-a-sandbox/