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Articles by Elmer Thomas
Desegregation in Savannah public schools is an ongoing struggle
This is an op-ed by Elmer Thomas, a retired educator who taught 18 years in the Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools. "I am going to Savannah High next year," proclaimed an older classmate as we made our way home from what was known then as St. Anthony's, a Catholic school for African-American children in Savannah. The year was 1954, and schools were still segregated, although the U.S. Supreme Court had decided Brown v. Board of Education just days earlier.
Selling 5,000+ Boxes of Girl Scout Cookies with a bit of Twilio Magic
By Elmer Thomas 2019-03-15 Selling Girl Scout cookies can be challenging, especially if the goal is to sell 5,000 boxes in 50 days! Why would one want to do such a thing? Well, first of all, selling Girl Scout cookies teaches girls life skills such as goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, business ethics, and so much more. Secondly, the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio council offers some amazing incentives.
Hacktoberfest 2018: The Hackening is Upon Us
Thanks to our amazing developer community, Digital Ocean, GitHub and Twilio, we are in the midst of another extraordinary Hacktoberfest! We hope you will join us in the fun (there are available issues for all levels of skill, with new issues added daily), we have some art museum quality swag once again for you, thanks to our all-star graphic designer Virginia Van Keuren. So far we have received 524 PRs with 540 story points donated from Hacktoberfest participants from all around the world.
SDKs and World Class Developer Experience
This article is featured in the new DZone Guide to API Management: Comparative Views of Real World Design. Get your free copy for more insightful articles, industry statistics, and more! Developing an SDK for your API can significantly increase the developer experience by providing native support for a developer's preferred programming environment. This article will describe some best practices, strategies, and processes to help your API provide a world-class developer experience.
API Management: Comparative Views of Real-World Design
Although some believe Java is dying, developments such as the upcoming release of Java 9 and the strength of the Java community tell another story. New JVM-based languages like Kotlin and exciting changes in Java 9 such as Project Jigsaw, Streams API improvements, and JShell prove a bright future ahead. The 2017 Guide to Java explores upcoming features of Java 9, how to make your apps backwards-compatible, a look into whether Microservices are right for you, and using the Futures API in Java.
SendGrid's Updated PHP SDK and What it Mean For You
We recently launched the v7.0.0 of our open source SendGrid PHP SDK. This is SendGrid’s 4th largest officially supported open source SDK with over 3.2 million+ installs via Packagist, 800+ GitHub Stargazers, 400+ forks and 90+ contributors. We stayed true to our open source mantra of producing SendGrid led, community-driven libraries. This was a collaborative effort that involved over 14 external contributors.
Automation within the Developer Experience Team
Learn tricks, shortcuts, and key lessons learned in creating a Developer Experience team, at APIStrat. Many companies that provide an API also include SDKs. At SendGrid, such SDKs send several billions of emails monthly through SendGrid’s Web API. Recently, SendGrid re-built their seven open source SDKs (Python, PHP, C#, Ruby, Node.js, Java, and Go) to support 233 API endpoints, a process which I’ll describe in my upcoming talk at APIStrat in Portland.
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