Author Archives: Elmer Thomas
About Elmer Thomas
Elmer Thomas is a Developer Evangelist at SendGrid. He works with developers at hackdays and conferences to further simplify the process of integrating with SendGrid’s APIs and to discover what new email challenges need to be conquered. When not on the road, he works on making life for developers using SendGrid frictionless.
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PennApps 2013 Event Recap
In January, my fellow Dev Evangelist, Swift, and I attended PennApps, a 48 hour hackathon at UPenn in Philadelphia. PennApps is the biggest university hackathon in the world (500+ attendees!) and is organized and hosted by UPenn students. Swift attended PennApps in the fall of 2012 and after having a great experience, was really looking forward to seeing what the students would bring in the spring. We weren’t disappointed! Swift did a live demo of the SendGrid API that utilizes Tumblr and an Arduino board (that showed his love for a certain popular Ryan Gosling meme!). Check it out. There were a ton…
READ MORE »Personal Productivity for Developers
As a SendGrid Developer Evangelist, a primary objective is to help make the lives of developers easier. To this end, our Developer Evangelist team examines our APIs and external resources from the view point of our users. From the novice to the expert, patterns emerge over time. One of those patterns I continue to witness is the lack of true “Zone” time. Creation requires a sustained effort to truly realize its potential. This post is designed to help you create more “Zone” time, igniting your passion for innovation. The spirit of this blog post is derived from the talk of…
READ MORE »10 Tips to Keep Email Out of the Spam Folder
This post was updated and republished from 8/18/2010. At SendGrid we are very serious about email deliverability. We live and breathe it each day. Similar to how Google keeps adjusting its search algorithm to provide the best results, we must also regularly adjust to ensure your non-spam email gets delivered. In this post we offer advice to help you make sure that your emails get delivered. Of course, the very best advice we can offer is to use SendGrid. Photo Credit – nobody loves spam, except possibly this person For additional information, check out our Tips & Tricks to Stay…
READ MORE »SendGrid Visits Guadalajara, Mexico and finds a Hacker Garage and a Click Jam
After attending Startup Weekend Puebla, I was eager to witness the Guadalajara tech scene first hand. After meeting with a few of the tech leaders there, it was clear that this visit to Mexico would bear amazing fruits (or agave ). Speaking of agave, my first stop was the home of Agave Labs founder Andy Kieffer, where he hosted more than 15 Mexico based tech leaders where his amazing wife Kristina treated us all to delicious cuisine as we contemplated the future of the tech community in Guadalajara. The following day, I took a tour of the Hacker Garage, where…
READ MORE »SendGrid is Hacking at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon
This weekend at TechCrunch Disrupt, Adria Richard and I will be hacking away at the San Francisco Design Center for 24 hours! Just what will we be hacking on? Well, you’ll have to track us down in person to learn that answer. We’ll also have some awesome swag waiting for those who find us. We are looking forward to meeting you!
READ MORE »¡Startup Weekend Puebla!
After a Geeks on a Plane adventure through South America, we just had to revisit Mexico’s emerging startup community. Especially after Claudio recommended we come check out Startup Weekend Puebla. I’m glad we did! Not only was the Startup Weekend a big success, I was able to check out the local startup/tech scene within the amazing historic backdrop of Puebla’s culturally rich city. Big thanks to Santiago López V., Jorge Carvajal and Cristian for their hospitality while I visited. First, I was treated to a tour of Angel Ventures Mexico and Endeavor Puebla, followed by a tour of the future…
READ MORE »Google I/O – The Hackathon Aftermath
While I did not attend Google I/O, I had the great pleasure to attend two hackathons that week. The first at Google’s SF offices, then at Mashery’s headquarters. In both cases, the people, ideas, venues and final projects were all top notch. Good times! #iohack 2012 Pitch Night with Startup Weekend With a packed house of 275+ attendees at Google’s offices in SF, several SendGrid’ers (Ian Douglas, Seth Ammons and Mike Rowan) took a break from Google I/O to join the festivities. After being treated to good eats by Google’s own chefs, we witnessed an unprecendented Startup Weekend style startup…
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