A high level view of the development process
Hi, I'm Chris Harrod, and I work within the Online Technology Group of 主播大秀 Online.
I have been involved in making some improvements to the look, feel and navigation of the website that provides information about how to develop for the 主播大秀. gives you the first steps towards access to the 主播大秀's back end systems, the platform on which much of our online technology is built, and the tools we use to build our web applications and delivery systems.
While a lot of people know the 主播大秀 web offerings as a place to consume content - sites such as , and - we also encourage some coders to interact directly with our systems. Therefore we have had a number of initiatives such as , and the , where developers can use our to mash up our content into new and pleasing formats.
As Ralph Riviera said in his we are also contributing to the whole ecosystem of technical and media companies in this field. We open source much of our code, expose our data via APIs, and encourage independant software development houses to work with us on projects.
On the commercial side of things the 主播大秀 has an established model of engagement for from external suppliers, and the 主播大秀 has an established model of engagement for employing. We have designed our back end services to facilitate this model; after signing a company non-disclosure agreement, developers are granted access to our documentation, code repositories, templating, testing and deployment systems via digital certificates. Thus it is now possible work for the 主播大秀 while sitting in a sunlounger in the Bahamas, armed with only a laptop, a wireless connection and a head full of ideas.
The refreshed and redesigned covers off some of our supporting technologies, aspects of the platform technology (dynamic content delivery system based on a modified LAMPs stack - Linux (RHEL), Apache, MySQL and PHP, with no direct connection between the PHP and database layers, to be specific) and our delivery standards.
So if you have developed for the 主播大秀 in the past, or are thinking about the possibilities of writing applications to dynamically deliver content to the web have a look at /developer.
I'd welcome your comments on the refreshed site.
Chris Harrod is Technical Writer, Online Technology Group, 主播大秀 Future Media