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Cristiano Betta, Developer Experience designer, Developer Relations consultant, ex-PayPal

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The Developer Experience Journey: Exploration. Sunday March 12, 2017. Thursday February 23, 2017. How I got my document certifying permanent residence, or EEA(PR). Thursday February 16, 2017. Developer Experience: GitHub READMEs. Tuesday February 7, 2017. Stop using bullet points. Friday February 3, 2017. Thursday January 26, 2017. Monday January 16, 2017. Monday January 9, 2017. The cost of using ZipCar. Thursday January 5, 2017. Developer Experience lessons from LEGO. Wednesday December 14, 2016.

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Developer Onboarding: Twilio - Cristiano Betta, Developer Experience designer, Developer Relations consultant, ex-PayPal

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This is the fourth in a series of articles focussing on reviewing Developer Onboarding. In this post I’m looking at the onboarding offered by Twilio. I will be looking at 3 aspects of the developer onboarding experience:. Does the experience help me to understand or try out their product before signing up for an account? How well does the product guide me from their main site to create an account and to make that first API call or integration? Build apps that communicate with everyone in the world. Twili...

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Developer Experience Design Patterns - Cristiano Betta, Developer Experience designer, Developer Relations consultant, ex-PayPal

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Developer Experience Design Patterns. As part of my series of Developer Experience. I've started to take a lot of screenshots of different parts of a developer experience UI. I've decided to collect some of these across the different products focussing on specific elements. I hope this allows you to see how different products have tackled the same problems in their own ways. Dedicated developer landing pages. Interactive demonstrations of product features. Look and feel of dashboards on first login.

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Developer Onboarding: Stripe - Cristiano Betta, Developer Experience designer, Developer Relations consultant, ex-PayPal

https://betta.io/blog/2016/10/16/developer-experience-review-stripe

This is the third in a series of articles focussing on reviewing Developer Onboarding. In this post I’m looking at the brand new design and onboarding offered by Stripe. I will be looking at 3 aspects of the developer onboarding experience:. Does the experience help me to understand or try out their product before signing up for an account? How well does the product guide me from their main site to create an account and to make that first API call or integration? The new standard in online payments.

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Building a Voice Alerts Broadcast System using Sinatra and the Nexmo Text-to-Speech API - Cristiano Betta, Developer Experience designer, Developer Relations consultant, ex-PayPal

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Building a Voice Alerts Broadcast System using Sinatra and the Nexmo Text-to-Speech API. This post was originally first posted on the Nexmo Developer Blog. On June 7th 2016. Sometimes a text message won’t do. When you really want to be alerted of something important you probably want to receive an actual phone call, wether it’s because a server is down, or because a natural disaster has occurred in your area. The flood alerts app. Using the Nexmo Text-To-Speech API (TTS). Rake db:migrate ruby app.rb.

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Developer Experience lessons from LEGO - Cristiano Betta, Developer Experience designer, Developer Relations consultant, ex-PayPal

https://betta.io/blog/2016/12/14/what-developer-experience-could-learn-from-lego

Developer Experience lessons from LEGO. This post is a write up of a talk given at DevRelCon London 2016. And API Days Paris 2016. Slides for this talk are available on Speaker Deck. Have you ever thought about how much first impressions matter? We all know the cliche anecdotes about how first impressions matter in dating, but that’s not what I want to talk about today. Today I want to talk about the first impression that your product makes. This is my Space Shuttle from LEGO box 6346, produced in 1992.

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Using LetsEncrypt with Sinatra on Heroku - Cristiano Betta, Developer Experience designer, Developer Relations consultant, ex-PayPal

https://betta.io/blog/2016/10/28/using-letsencrypt-with-sinatra-on-heroku

Using LetsEncrypt with Sinatra on Heroku. This is a short and straightforward tutorial showing how to use Sinatra. With an auto-renewing SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt. LetsEncrypt is awesome as it believes security should be built into the web without any extra cost. The code for this demo is on Github. There is both a. Branch with the code before and after I added SSL respectively. What we will cover. Create a basic Sinatra app. That shows a basic. Capabilities to the application. We start with the.

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Building a Customer Service Chat App with Rails 5 Action Cable and SMS - Cristiano Betta, Developer Experience designer, Developer Relations consultant, ex-PayPal

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Building a Customer Service Chat App with Rails 5 Action Cable and SMS. This post was originally first posted on the Nexmo Developer Blog. On July 14th 2016. Shipped with some amazing new features like Turbolinks 5. And API mode, but the feature that caught our eye is the new build in WebSockets integration with the ActionCable API. A customer service chat client. For this tutorial we’ll create a two way customer support chat system. To make things easy we build a starting point. Nexmo-customer-service-c...

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The cost of using ZipCar - Cristiano Betta, Developer Experience designer, Developer Relations consultant, ex-PayPal

https://betta.io/blog/2017/01/05/the-cost-of-using-zipcar

The cost of using ZipCar. About a year ago I tweeted about my ZipCar. Usage in 2015, and as I was doing my accounting I realised I should do a similar thing for 2016. See, I’ve had my driver’s license for a few years now. Yes, I did own a car for a year because it’s notoriously hard to rent a car within your first year of having your license, but I got rid of it after a year. In other words: for less than 24 a trip I’ve had 14 trips that included insurance (excluding a damage fee per incident) and fuel (...