OAuth-Aniket

Get Box Access Tokens in 2 Quick Steps

Friday, May 17th, 2013 General

OAuth 2.0 is one of the most prevalent standards for authorization on the web, so it was a natural choice for us to build our authorization process around it.  Building a secure authorization controller in your app is crucial; however, when you’re early on in development, you may just want quick access to a set of access and refresh tokens to test your app with. Today, we’re going to... Read more.

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The Platform Team Crosses the Pond

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Between the bustle of the Olympics and exciting news about many companies investing in Tech City, London has had a busy summer.  London is becoming a serious player in the international...

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Let the hacking commence!

Friday, August 10th, 2012

Tomorrow’s the day! All you hackers out there, take some time to think about what you’re going to build, get a good night’s sleep tonight and get ready to win our...

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More Prizes for the Hackathon!

Monday, August 6th, 2012

With our hackathon coming up this weekend, we couldn’t be more excited! We’ve made a couple of additions to the prize pool, including a grand prize – $3,000 in cold,...

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We’re Joining Appcelerator for a Mobile Dev Challenge!

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

As any of our dozens of OneCloud partners can tell you, we love awesome mobile apps. That’s why we’re excited to be part of Appcelerator’s Mobile Dev Challenge, which...

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Join us for a Hackathon!

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

You love hacking, right? How about prizes? Any thoughts on lots of food? You can probably see where this is going – we’re throwing a hackathon! Not just any hackathon, though...

More v2 Updates

Friday, July 13th, 2012

In keeping with our promise to continually update the v2 API, we’ve got another batch of v2 enhancements to announce. Smart Links You can now create smart links for any file or...

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Unit Testing with Static Variables

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Unit testing is an obvious best practice, but it is not easy to introduce to legacy code.  I’ve found some great advice here, particularly in Clean Code by Robert Martin.  However,...

v2 API Enhancements

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

We’ve received a ton of feedback since we launched the v2 API beta in April. Many of you have taken advantage of our new presence on StackOverflow and helped other developers get...

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Calling Earth’s Mightiest Developer Heroes… Come meet us at Google I/O!

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

There’s something you should know about us, here on the Box platform team. We’re obsessed with comic-book analogies.  We love what we do, and we’re stoked every day about what’s...