Archive for October, 2009
Remix v0 Going Away January 1st
Heads up!
The old version of the Remix API will be deactivated on January 1st. If you are still using v0 all you should have to do is put /v1 in the front of the URL. Most of the attributes remain the same, please contact me if you experience issues with different attributes and I will [...]
On moving (back) to Mac.
I used to use a Mac for work, because I worked in advertising and marketing communications, and everyone in advertising and marcomm uses a Mac, at least at small companies. I moved to PC at work in 1999 when I joined Colle & McVoy, and have been all-PC ever since. A few weeks ago, I [...]
Why use Remix?
Recently on the Remix Forums a user made a quality post asking some tough questions. The post is here. The text of it is quoted below:
Just reviewing remix offering. I don’t understand why I would go through the trouble of setting up a web site that uses BB as a backing store when the prices [...]
Remix Powered Widget Development with TopCoder!
We have started down the path of creating a widget to display our best selling products by category using the Remix API data!
Over on the TopCoder powered Remix Challenge website we explain a little more about what it is we are creating and how you can get involved.
I’m excited to see this take shape, I [...]
Interesting Remix API Queries!
Have you ever wanted to see what Remix could show beyond the examples in documentation? Did you ever think of a question like “Between two categories I’d like to know which is the highest selling” but didn’t know how to construct the query?
We’ve started to show things like this via our Twitter (@bestbuyremix). Periodically we [...]
The Outage: What the Heck Happened?
For those that were not aware, we had an API outage last weekend that caused us to temporarily use an old version of the API. I wanted to explain a bit about what happened, why it was unique, and how it will be different in the future.
What Happened?
At approximately 11:28PM CDT on 9/25/2009 the Remix [...]
