Developer Garden Newsletter - December 2010
The year is drawing to a close and it is time for our last 2010 newsletter. We would like to thank all of our Developer Garden members for an exciting year - packed full of numerous technical developments, unique events and great people who are behind it all.
We wish you a great vacation and a Happy New Year.
We look forward to working with you in the new year.
Yours, Developer Garden
The topics at a glance
"Don't REST! REST!" Vol. 2 - The REST SDKs are here.
New Developer Garden API: Send MMS Beta
Update: Voice Call 3.0
More payment options: From now on, payment on account
Unify: Developing mobile applications across platforms
Send SMS free of charge from your desktop: Send SMS Windows Sidebar Gadget
Annual review: Developer Garden 2010 in pictures
"Don't REST! REST!" Vol. 2 - The REST SDKs are here.
The start of the year saw the arrival of our REST interfaces. Now we have also redeveloped our software developing kits from scratch: from now on, our services will be activated via SDKs using REST. This means a reduced "communications overhead", lower consumption of resources as well as a better structuring of the SDKs and fewer external dependencies.
More information: http://www.developergarden.com/blog/-/blogs/1672831
New Developer Garden API: Send MMS Beta
With Send MMS there is now a new API in the Developer Garden portfolio. Although the API still has beta status, we would like to make the service available to you now exclusively for testing - free of charge, of course. With Send MMS you can incorporate MMS functions into your applications: from advertising and voucher campaigns to digital greetings cards and barcodes for tickets sent via cell phones. The files can then be sent to up to 10 subscribers simultaneously.
More information: http://www.developergarden.com/openapi/sendmms
Update: Voice Call 3.0
We have also further developed our Voice Call service: with the new Voice Call release it is now also possible for A subscribers to be reached in the mobile communications network - both nationally and internationally. The Voice Call billing model has also been modified: the new prices are per subscriber and no longer per call between two subscribers. In addition, several calls are cheaper than before: for example, you can save over 3 cents per minute on a call made between the German fixed network and the German mobile network.
More information: http://www.developergarden.com/openapi/voicecall
More payment options: From now on, payment on account
Up until now you could only top up your account using a prepaid process. From now on, payment on account using a postpaid process is possible as well. Show us your project ideas and business models for lucrative applications and we will check whether a postpaid account is an option for you.
More information: http://www.developergarden.com/blog/-/blogs/1673621
Unify: Developing mobile applications across platforms
The open source project Unify was born out of a need to increase efficiency in the development of mobile applications. In addition to creating savings by reusing code for different platforms, Unify is increasing efficiency in the development process. Less expertise is required. All developers use the same technology, which results in better exchange and collaboration opportunities in application development. Unify is based on web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and CSS and currently supports Smartphones based on the iOS (iPhone), Android (Google) and WebOS (HP/Palm) platforms.
More information: http://www.developergarden.com/unify
Example application from the community: Send SMS free of charge from your desktop (Send SMS Windows Sidebar Gadget)
With the Send SMS Sidebar Gadget you can easily send SMS from your Windows sidebar. The application is based on our Send SMS API and includes an address book, character counter, history recording and much more. The user can send 10 SMS per day free of charge in sandbox mode. In production mode, the number of SMS is unlimited on the standard rate plan.
More information: http://www.developergarden.com/blog/-/blogs/1491226
Annual review: Developer Garden 2010 in pictures
We have compiled a small Facebook photo album of the finest and most important moments and meetings of this year. If you have a great snapshot of the Developer Garden Team or our events, feel free to post it on our wall. We would like to thank all community members, partners, colleagues and friends once again for an excellent 2010.
Go to photo album: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=321122&id=117579465268
