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Introduction: Deploying Drupal on SoftLayer with Chef - Part 1
Mon, 03/10/2014 - 08:53
Posted by: waelriac

DevOps adoption rate has substantially increased in the last couple of years across all organization sizes due to the real business value that DevOps provides in terms of agility. Automation of application installation in the cloud is an important aspect in DevOps. Traditionally, automation has been achieved via writing shell scripts. These were sufficient to manage smaller applications, but more complex runtimes required the scripts to be written in higher-level programming languages like Perl, Python and Ruby.

Introduction: Deploying Drupal on SoftLayer with Chef
Wed, 03/05/2014 - 14:53
Posted by: phil

DevOps adoption rate has substantially increased in the last couple of years across all organization sizes due to the real business value that DevOps provides in terms of agility. Automation of application installation in the cloud is an important aspect in DevOps. Traditionally, automation has been achieved via writing shell scripts. These were sufficient to manage smaller applications, but more complex runtimes required the scripts to be written in higher-level programming languages like Perl, Python and Ruby.

Getting Started with the Python CLI
Thu, 10/31/2013 - 08:03
Posted by: phil
Python Client 3.0 Released
Wed, 09/25/2013 - 09:58
Posted by: beittenc

We’re pleased to announce the 3.0 release of the Python language bindings for the SLAPI. With the 3.0 release, we’ve made a number of changes and introduced a collection of features we’re really excited to share with the community.

API Ordering: Automatic Upgrades to Discontinued Items
Fri, 09/06/2013 - 15:29
Posted by: bshato

We recently released changes to provide a smoother process for customers with integrated ordering systems through our API. Previously, if an order was placed for a product or service that no longer exists, such as a discontinued server or hard drive option, the API would stop the ordering process and throw an error. Users would then be required to backtrack through the process and revise the order to ensure all components of the product or service being ordered were available. Our Product Team now has the ability to create upgrade-paths to prevent this from happening.

Redirection and Controller Workflow
Thu, 09/05/2013 - 08:19
Posted by: tvance

A common problem when developing controller functionality is how to structure the workflow of the page. You have to make sure that the different scenarios are accounted for and make sense to the end user, but you also want to make sure that your code stays neat and easy to maintain.

Technical Debt
Thu, 07/25/2013 - 13:03
Posted by: jbrown

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, debt is defined as, "something owed, an obligation, to be in a state of owing." You are likely familiar with this concept as it pertains to financial affairs. When you take out a loan to purchase a home or vehicle, you have obligated yourself to repay the amount of money you borrowed from a financial institution.

New Features In the ExtJS 4 Model Class
Thu, 07/18/2013 - 10:09
Posted by: apunjani

In 2011, Ext JS 3 was rewritten from the ground up, giving birth to Ext JS 4. With the changes, Ext JS 3's Ext.data.Record is replaced by Ext JS 4's Ext.data.Model class. This class introduces a host of new capabilities that generally revolve around the data contained in the Models, which are fully customizable based on user or business preferences.

Getting Started with Tickets
Tue, 07/09/2013 - 10:53
Posted by: waelriac

SoftLayer's ticket system is a primary communication medium for customers to interact with the SoftLayer support groups. The SoftLayer_Ticket service provides an interaction point for individual tickets, and all tickets on an account can be interfaced through SoftLayer_Account.

Unit Testing Ember Data Models
Fri, 06/21/2013 - 13:22
Posted by: jbrown

Ember.js is a JavaScript MVC framework for creating ambitious web applications and is one that, along with the Ember Data library's models, SoftLayer uses for its projects. The "M" in MVC stands for model which is the most important layer in an application, for if the data models are not correctly architected anything built on top of them will inherit their deficiencies.

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