Best Buy Remix Developer Blog

I realize it's been awhile since last we talked...and I hereby resolve to never start another post with an inane statement like that. One thing  I hate about blogs is the blogster apologizing for not writing sooner. So...never again!

We haven't been writing because we've been in the middle of doing...trying to develop the API so that it's actually useful and usable. We have a ton of updates waiting to be pushed out all designed to make using Remix easier and more fun.

One thing in particular that we've been working on is versioning. When we do our next push to production the formal way of requesting data will include a version number somewhere in the string. We'll detail it out here when we're closing to launching it and of course, we'll be backwards compatible for awhile so that y'all will have some time to correctly format your query strings.

Another thing we're working on is some more advanced functionality around wildcards and query strings, as well as some great tools for generating an affiliate buy URL, so that you wouldn't have figure out how to do it yourself. Speaking of affiliates, we do have an affiliate program, administered by Commission Junction that Remix developers can join. Basically, if you get people to click on a "buy" link that ends up either in a cart or the product detail page on bestbuy.com, we'll share a percentage of the sale with you. The link on the front page of the portal is a way to join. In the coming weeks we'll be focusing on making the whole process easier...