http://developers.blog.box.net Announcements and API Changes for the Box.net Storage and Sharing Platform Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:26:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here at Box, we understand that you want to be able to access your files in the cloud from anywhere, which is why we have been working hard to give both our customers and our developers all the mobile tools they need. Recently, we have seen more and more mobile ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2010/02/24/boxnet-partners-with-blackberry/ At Box.net, we're rapidly expanding our product beyond basic file management, adding features that enhance sharing, collaboration and advanced organization. As we continue to innovate, we want to make sure that our partner developers can take advantage of the best of our new offerings. We're therefore launching new API methods that ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2010/02/09/new-api-methods-search-commenting-and-updates/ Good news for developers who frequently use our overwrite urls and new_copy urls.  We have updated our upload API methods to give you more control over the names of files that are uploaded to overwrite files or create new copies of files. For new_copy_url, you can now optionally ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2010/01/31/updates-to-upload-methods-automatic-rename/ Here at Box, we know that collaboration requires people not only to share and discuss files, but also other content on the web. To this end, we offer Box Bookmarks, which allow users to save links to web sites into their Box accounts. Once they are saved, they can be ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/12/17/introducing-the-box-bookmarks-button/ Here at Box, we want to support developers of all types. That's why we're excited to release an API library for Ruby developers, which makes it really easy to work with Box on the Ruby platform. It's easy to get started - just visit our sample code page at http://developers.box.net/APIexamples ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/12/15/new-ruby-library-for-the-boxnet-api/ The iPhone is a powerful platform for creating content, viewing files and communicating with friends and associates. One of the big problems we've seen, however, is that it's difficult to share documents with others from the phone. Many solutions exist but they require large amounts of custom code, building or ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/11/13/more-support-for-iphone-integration-with-box/ While providing additional resources for mobile application developers, we realized that we needed to do more to promote the efforts of our development community, both for our partners who create OpenBox Actions and for individual developers who have created compelling and unique integrations.  Through a joint effort with engineering and ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/10/25/promoting-developers-through-the-openbox-directory/ This month we have some great news for mobile app developers, and some more great news for all OpenBox developers. We recently launched OpenBox Mobile, a program geared to helping mobile applications interact with Box.  Through programming libraries, sample code, and recommended API methods to optimize calls, we look forward ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/09/15/working-with-mobile-developers-openbox-mobile/ Many new platform partners are recently joining the OpenBox directory (with plenty more to come) by leveraging OpenBox Actions.  For those of you who are more familiar with the API than OpenBox Actions, Actions enable you to bring your own service's functionality into the Box environment - a different direction ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/08/31/getting-started-with-openbox-actions/ The OpenBox platform is designed for incredible flexibility to let developers create the widest variety of integrations possible.  But we also notice trends among applications and like to help simplify those common tasks.  For instance, many services wish to transfer files to a user's Box account often performing the same ... http://developers.blog.box.net/2009/07/31/send-files-to-box-easily-with-quick-import/