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brandonmwest / create template

Last active August 29, 2015 14:01

SendGrid web api v3 curl example

curl -X POST -d '{"name":"example_name"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -u sendgrid_username https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/templates

brandonmwest / example.cs

Last active January 7, 2025 07:39

Generating base64-encoded Authorization headers in a variety of languages

	httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization =
	new AuthenticationHeaderValue(
	"Basic",
	Convert.ToBase64String(
	System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(
	string.Format("{0}:{1}", username, password))));

brandonmwest / gist:7605571

Last active December 29, 2015 03:09

	module Jekyll
	class ApiExample < Liquid::Block
	def initialize(tag_name, markup, tokens)
	attributes = markup.split
	@identifier = attributes[0]
	@http_method = attributes[1]
	@url = attributes[2]
	@data = attributes[3]

	super

brandonmwest / gist:6937700

Created October 11, 2013 16:20

Send an email with categories using sendgrid-csharp

	// Create the email object first, then add the properties.
	SendGrid myMessage = SendGrid.GetInstance();
	myMessage.AddTo("[email protected]");
	myMessage.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]", "John Smith");
	myMessage.Subject = "Testing the SendGrid Library";
	myMessage.Text = "Hello World!";

	string[] categories = new string[3] {"category1", "category2", "category3"};

	myMessage.SetCategories(categories);

brandonmwest / gist:6489339

Created September 8, 2013 23:02


	INVALID JSON in source/API_Reference/Customer_Subuser_API/apps.html:
	"settings":null
	--------------------------

	INVALID JSON in source/API_Reference/Customer_Subuser_API/whitelabel.html:

	--------------------------

	INVALID JSON in source/API_Reference/Marketing_Emails_API/variations.html:

brandonmwest / gist:6335429

Last active December 21, 2015 16:39

ruby script for pretty printing JSON and XML inside of octopress {% codeblock %} tags

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'json'
	require 'nokogiri'
	require 'nokogiri-pretty'

	markdown_files = File.join("/docs/source", "*", ".md")

	Dir.glob markdown_files do \|markdown_file\|
	next if markdown_file == '.' or markdown_file == '..'
	path = markdown_file

brandonmwest / gist:6263278

Last active December 21, 2015 06:19

Typical jekyll scaffolding (source: http://jekyllrb.com/docs/structure/)

	.
	├── _config.yml
	├── _drafts
	\| ├── begin-with-the-crazy-ideas.textile
	\| └── on-simplicity-in-technology.markdown
	├── _includes
	\| ├── footer.html
	\| └── header.html
	├── _layouts
	\| ├── default.html

brandonmwest / gist:6262972

Created August 18, 2013 17:51

Example Jekyll plugin (generator)

	module Jekyll
	require 'haml'
	class HamlConverter < Converter
	safe true
	priority :low

	def matches(ext)
	ext =~ /haml/i
	end

brandonmwest / gist:6262961

Created August 18, 2013 17:49

Example Jekyll page

	---
	layout: page
	weight: 0
	title: Python
	navigation:
	show: true
	---

	We'll start with a simple example using the built-in Python SMTP libraries to send a message.
	After that example, you can find more complete instructions that use the SendGrid Python library.

brandonmwest / gist:6262952

Last active December 21, 2015 06:18

Example Jekyll layout

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