It's always a drag to come up with fun costumes for Halloween. Especially if you're a developer and you're lazy. Luckily, we have some ideas that should be pretty painless to pull off. Click the images for the original source link. …
Project Highlight: Contextual Billboards With APIs
Billboards, or out of home (OOH) advertising, generate more than $7.3 billion in ad revenue a year. What if developers could use APIs to make them a lot more relevant? Today, we're highlighting Karunanidhi Devanidhi and Ganeshbabu Thavasimuthu for their HackTX project around contextual billboards. To better visualize their project, imagine this …
How to Connect to the Twilio API in 2 Easy Steps
Update: Twilio's official APIs are now available on RapidAPI. Be sure to check them out. TL;DR: Twilio's API lets you make calls, send texts or send multi-media messages en masse. By connecting to the API, you can add appointment reminders, two-factor verification or ETA alerts to your app. Related: Send SMS with Twilio's API (in Ruby …
Project Highlights: DubHacks Fall 2016
We just wrapped up a great hackathon at University of Washington! Thank you to the amazing DubHacks organizers for putting on a truly memorable event. Our founders, Iddo and Mickey, definitely enjoyed themselves ???? Overall, we were blown away by some of the projects we saw built in just 24 hours. The theme of the event was …
7 Ways to Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day
What did Ada Lovelace invent? Ada Lovelace wrote the first computer program in 1843...one hundred years before the computer was actually invented. When was Ada Lovelace Day Founded? Ada Lovelace Day, on the other hand, was established in 2009 by Suw Charman-Anderson to celebrate the achievements of this programmer and other women in STEM …
Amazon Alexa Tutorial: Build Google Translate Skill
We just got our hands on the Amazon Echo - a new Alexa-powered voice assistant device from Amazon. Let's see what we can do with it. The Amazon Alexa platform is based on skills. Amazon Alexa Skills are the equivalent of apps for this voice-powered platform. While there are countless skills we could potentially build for Alexa, today we'll …