Getting started with web applications on Mono
I’ve started to explore mono, with a view to moving some of our web applications to Linux. Used MonoDevelop on OSX to spike a simple HttpHandler to return a response. I was more interested in how...
View ArticleChange to Default Artist Image
We will be making a change to the default image we serve when we do not have an a proper artist image available. Currently we redirect requests, via an HTTP 302, to the following image:...
View Article7digital Tomahawk Resolvers
Went to Amsterdam Music Hack Day and left with a working Tomahawk Resolver for 7digital previews, a spiked locker integration and some cool ideas on how to promote 7digital with Open Source This will...
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Metric Driven Development Fueled by StatsD and Graphite
Why metrics? Since I joined 7digital I’ve seen the API grow from a brand new feature side by side with the (then abundant) websites to be the main focus of the company. The traffic grew and grew and...
View ArticleIMPORTANT: Changes to 7digital Catalogue Feeds
After more than 5 years in service the time has come to retire the 7digital XML feeds. But this is good news as we have a brand new feeds system in place as a replacement, please read further down for...
View ArticleTrack Search Api Beta
We have just released a beta version of our new Track Search api endpoint. It can be accessed here:...
View ArticleMajor Network Maintenance – Thursday 11am BST
We will be performing an essential upgrade to our core network infrastructure on Thursday August 9th at 11am BST. This will affect the whole 7digital Platform and our services might be unavailable for...
View ArticleAPIdays 2012
On Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th December Paris held host to the first international API focused event in Europe – APIdays.io. Myself, and my colleague Hibri, eagerly took part and we gave a short...
View ArticleJSON is coming
By popular demand we’re working on adding support for JSON response format to our API. We’re making a good progress and are now able to share some of it with you. Please note that this is still work in...
View ArticleCatalogue API updates
In addition to JSON support we’ve also been hard at work improving the API itself. Here’s some of the changes that we’ve introduced to Catalogue API recently. But first 2 important upcoming changes:...
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