Today, Codecademy launched a partnership with SendGrid and nine other companies to help novice developers learn how to leverage APIs to create new projects, sites, and apps. SendGrid has always been dedicated to making developers’ lives easier with flexible, well-documented APIs. With the launch of Codecademy’s API lessons, learning to integrate with SendGrid has become even easier. Now, new developers can get a step by step tutorial on how to send email with SendGrid without having to just rely on our documentation. Codecademy has been an amazing resource for people to learn the basics of programming, and the addition of…
READ MORE »With our recent announcement that SendGrid is a featured launch partner selected by Microsoft for inclusion in its Windows Azure Store, we have an exciting promotion to share with Microsoft Windows Azure customers. Windows Azure customers can unlock two months of SendGrid’s Bronze Plan for free by entering the promo code ‘freesendgridbronze.’ This will give you 40,000 free emails per month and all the bronze features free of charge for the first two months. SendGrid’s inclusion as part of the Windows Azure Store empowers developers to use SendGrid directly from their Windows Azure environment with unified billing and custom documentation…
READ MORE »As reported by GigaOm yesterday, we announced our latest integrations with leading mobile-backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) platforms Parse, StackMob and Windows Azure Mobile Services. These integrations will now make it easier for more mobile developers to build email delivery and alerts into their applications without having to worry about the details of their infrastructure. Last week, we also announced tie ins to the popular Twilio APIs that enable SMS text and voice integration into mobile apps. Our MBaaS integrations are part of our ongoing strategy to make our service broadly available, easy to access and simple to deploy, regardless of what cloud…
READ MORE »We are excited to announce that we have teamed with Twilio, the leader in cloud telecommunication tools, to provide our enterprise customers with a complete messaging platform. Now our enterprise customers will be able to send SMS, voicemails, and push notifications as well as transactional and marketing emails. This is certainly not the first time we have worked closely with Twilio. Together we have sponsored countless hackdays and organized over a dozen API HackDays along with Mashery and Spotify over the past two years. Recently, we teamed with them to sponsor the “Doer Express” to help developers in the New…
READ MORE »SendGrid is excited to announce today its integration with Parse’s mobile-backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) platform. Through the SendGrid Cloud Module, developers are now empowered with a simple and easy way to add transactional email capabilities to their Parse mobile applications. Cloud Modules are the easiest way to integrate your Parse app with third-party services like SendGrid. They work just like the JavaScript modules you can create yourself but they are readily available to everyone. You just add require(‘cloudModuleName’) to your Cloud Code and you are ready to go! Mobile developers are increasingly looking to MBaaS platforms like Parse to reduce development time…
READ MORE »SendGrid is pleased to announce its participation in StackMob’s new developer-ready mobile marketplace. Through the StackMob marketplace, developers and enterprises can now easily install and integrate SendGrid into their mobile applications with a simple mobile API interface. The StackMob marketplace makes mobile development easy by extending the core functionality of their apps with best-in-class solutions from vendors like SendGrid that they know and trust. Developers can easily integrate functionality from trusted, third-party providers like SendGrid into their mobile applications. By helping developers get to market faster with fewer development resources, the StackMob Marketplace offers an invaluable resource. SendGrid is very…
READ MORE »On November 14, 2012, Microsoft will be hosting Windows AzureConf, a free event for the Windows Azure community. This event will feature a keynote presentation by Scott Guthrie, along with numerous sessions executed by Windows Azure community members. Streamed live for an online audience on Channel 9, the event will allow you to see how developers just like you are using Windows Azure to develop applications on the best cloud platform in the industry. Community members from all over the world will join Scott in the Channel 9 studios to present their own ideas, innovations inventions and experiences. These presentations…
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