Heroku–CF5

Deploying to Cloud Foundry and Heroku from Box

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 Announcements, New Features

Today we’re launching a feature that we hope will make the development process a ton easier. Some of the biggest challenges a developer faces include figuring out how to host their application, what server configurations to use, what providers to use… a lot of things that don’t really affect the end user unless something goes wrong. Worrying about these things detracts from the time you could... Read more.

Hackathon

Killing It at AngelHack

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Security of our customer’s data is of the utmost importance.  This is a fact and a guiding influence we live by here at Box.  And with that mindset and focus comes a passion for...

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Open Source Box Tools: SpriteDocs

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Here at Box, we create a number of tools that help us manage our code, execute the day-to-day processes that we need to keep the site working, and generally help us work effectively...

New Error Codes for ‘rename’ Method

Saturday, November 5th, 2011

When you change the name of a file via the API, there is quite a number of things that can potentially go wrong. It’s the API’s job to tell you what exactly happened so...

PHP Autoloader – Building Your Own Register

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Although rife with a slew of inefficiencies and idiosyncrasies, PHP does offer the scripter a powerful set of possibilities for the energetic and inclined. One of these is its autoload...

CRC321

CRC32 Checksums; The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

A fellow Box engineer and I were looking into a CRC32 problem that puzzled us, and we wanted to share our discoveries given that there are few resources available in one place regarding...

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PHP Library and CloudSpokes

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Box recently hosted a challenge on CloudSpokes to build out a new fully extensible PHP library for the Box API. The results rolled in recently, and we’re happy to announce the...

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Using the Box API with Javascript

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Setup In this tutorial, we’ll be using a local server to develop our app. You’re certainly welcome to use your own web server if you have one, but if not, grab a copy of...

Box Mobile App

Building a Better Mobile Website

Saturday, August 13th, 2011

Our first mobile website was built in 2007, following the iPhone’s explosive release. m.box.net v1.0 offered a barebones set of features, which included file browsing, downloading,...

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Android Library Update

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

In July, we released an Android library to enable developers to quickly start building apps on the Box platform.  The library saves developers from having to write code for executing...