Find Out When SendGrid is Coming to Your Town
As Developer Evangelists we are constantly on the road looking to help developers who are either current SendGrid users or are experiencing pain related to building and maintaining an Email...
View ArticleStartup Weekend, San Diego Style
I had the great pleasure to visit San Diego on June 15th to witness the creation of some amazing startup ideas at Startup Weekend San Diego.The event was held at CoMerge, an amazing venue with very...
View ArticleCode Campin’ at SoCal Code Camp
I love code camps, especially the SoCal Code Camp! It’s an opportunity to learn from fellow developers in a classroom style setting. This year over 148 people submitted sessions for Saturday &...
View ArticleGoogle 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,...
View Article¡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...
View ArticleSendGrid 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...
View ArticleSendGrid 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...
View Article10 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...
View ArticlePersonal 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...
View ArticlePennApps 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...
View ArticlePrinciples of a Killer Hackathon Demo
Over the past few years, I’ve seen hundreds of pitches and demos. One of the most painful scenarios I’ve witnessed is when someone creates a killer hack, but the presentation falls flat, leaving the...
View ArticleUsing SendGrid with Visual Studio 2013 Preview for Windows 8.1 Development
SendGrid is attending the VSIP Summit in Redmond, WA this week as proud Visual Studio partners. Our goal is to learn as much as we can about the Visual Studio community in order to better serve our...
View ArticleIntroducing SendGrid’s Hacker in Residence
After three amazing years working at SendGrid, the last two as a Developer Evangelist with the mighty Developer Relations team, it’s time to move on towards a new SendGrid chapter. Enter the Hacker in...
View ArticleTechStars Patriot Bootcamp: Advice from Generals and CTOs
When military veterans return from service, they face the daunting task of re-assimilating back into civilian life. In the case of the veterans attending the second Techstars Patriot Bootcamp, under...
View ArticleSMTP Headers: Custom Fields, SendGrid Magic
As a developer, you utilize the SMTP protocol whenever your app sends or receives an email. This protocol is well defined in several RFCs, but who wants to sift through RFCs in order to take advantage...
View ArticleStartup Resources: 19 Tips to Do More Faster
While attending the TechStars Patriot BootCamp event for veterans, Kelley Hilborn, Director of Community for Softlayer, and I led a discussion about startup resources. We discussed products, services...
View ArticleUsing SendGrid with Visual Studio 2013 Preview for Windows 8.1 Development
SendGrid is attending the VSIP Summit in Redmond, WA this week as proud Visual Studio partners. Our goal is to learn as much as we can about the Visual Studio community in order to better serve our...
View ArticleIntroducing SendGrid’s Hacker in Residence
After three amazing years working at SendGrid, the last two as a Developer Evangelist with the mighty Developer Relations team, it’s time to move on towards a new SendGrid chapter. Enter the Hacker in...
View ArticleTechStars Patriot Bootcamp: Advice from Generals and CTOs
When military veterans return from service, they face the daunting task of re-assimilating back into civilian life. In the case of the veterans attending the second Techstars Patriot Bootcamp, under...
View ArticleSMTP Headers: Custom Fields, SendGrid Magic
As a developer, you utilize the SMTP protocol whenever your app sends or receives an email. This protocol is well defined in several RFCs, but who wants to sift through RFCs in order to take advantage...
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