Elmer Thomas, a Developer Evangelist here at SendGrid, recently had the opportunity to work with the StackMob Team—Sid Maestre, Developer Evangelist and Steve Gershik, VP of Marketing—to co-present the webcast: Creating Compelling User Experiences with Your Mobile App. If you missed the live webcast, you can still join the on-demand version to learn how to: Uncover the 7 secrets to a remarkable mobile app user experience Get your app to market faster than your competition Gain actionable insight from your in-app transactional email At the end of the session, you’ll have a solid understanding of how to create outstanding user experiences with…
READ MORE »This weekend in San Francisco, there will be a special kind of hackathon welcoming first time hackers. SendGrid is helping to sponsor and support this event. We’ll be giving away Sphero robotic balls plus 6 months of the SendGrid Silver plan to the winning team plus we’re hosting a workshop tonight, How To Rock Your First Hackathon, via Girl Develop IT where Adria, our Developer Evangelist in SF will help first time hackers prepare. Details Everyone Hacks January 18th through 20th, 2013 NextSpace, 1 Hallidie Plaza, San Francisco, CA 94102 Register on Eventbrite Prizes The list of prizes include: The…
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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…
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Hurricane Sandy managed to bring New York to a grinding halt last week when she took out our power and public transportation. I was lucky enough to live in an area that was mostly unaffected, but sadly a lot of New York and New Jersey residents weren’t as fortunate. While I was waiting out the weather, the gears in my head started turning and I was trying to think out ways I could use my new found love for Arduino to help people survive extreme weather (like hurricanes).
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Last week Microsoft held BUILD 2012 to showcase the release of Windows 8, Windows 8 Phone, the Surface Tablet and the launch of the Azure store giving developers the ability to sign up for solutions like SendGrid directly within the Azure management portal. Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager and Community Architect for Microsoft’s Web Platform, interviewed SendGrid’s Developer Evangelist Adria Richards, New Relic’s Developer Evangelist Nick Floyd and MongoLab’s VP of Marketing and Sales Ben Wen. We discussed adoption of cloud technologies by enterprise, how to evaluate cloud providers and the needs of developers when it comes to production needs and…
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Today SendGrid is excited to announce our new and improved documentation! Some of the highlights of the new system are: Quicker load times Improved navigation and organization More relevant search results Increased legibility Cleaner presentation of code samples Ability to toggle between JSON and XML examples The new system will allow us to collaborate on updates and changes much more quickly, and we hope that the changes will allow developers to find what they need quicker than before. We’d love to hear your feedback on how you like the changes or what we can do to make things better, so…
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In this tutorial we will integrate Sendgrid service with the user authentication in Mobile Services. You will be able to send a “Welcome Email” from your app once the authentication is successfully done. Sign up for Mobile Services Get Started with Authentication Sign up for SendGrid Integrate SendGrid with Azure Mobile Services Update the authentication process Steps 1 and 2: Sign up for Azure Mobile Services and Get Started with Authentication First of all you need to know how to create new Azure mobile app and then how to authenticate users in Windows Azure Mobile Services from a Windows…
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