This week, my technical apprenticeship at Sailthru (through General Assembly) officially comes to an end. As such, I thought I’d take a quick look back at my initial goals and objectives to provide a short debrief on my experience overall… Continue Reading…
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codeblog: JSON, JSON, Jason
Last week, I walked through a bit of a tutorial on how to use data feeds to populate and repeat blocks of html content in html emails for Sailthru’s personalization service.
This past week was all about digging further into JSON feeds and more specific data sets that can be passed into Sailthru’s system via APIs. Continue Reading…
codeblog: programming html emails with sailthru’s zephyr code
So the past couple weeks at Sailthru, I’ve really settled into the day-to-day routine pretty nicely. We’ve had a steady amount of work, which has generally been a mix of building out raw html emails templates and programming those templates with Sailthru’s Zephyr scripting language.
I thought I’d try something new this week. Rather than doing a general overview of the work week and dropping in a few animated gifs for comedic value, I thought I’d dig into the code a bit and explain a little more about our process for adding programming snippets into html emails. Here goes… Continue Reading…
codeblog: okay, now we’re coding; what about fixing the process?
This week’s coding adventure at Sailthru was fairly similar to last week, but my workload was much more varied in terms of coding HTML emails vs. actual programming (i.e. using Sailthru’s scripting language, Zephyr). I spent quite a bit more time digging through Sailthru’s dev docs to find solutions to programming challenges in order to add content and user data to a variety of email templates. Continue Reading…
codeblog: slicing & dicing….and breaking html emails
This past week at Sailthru was all about digging back into the painful process of coding HTML emails.
First the rough spot….one of the key lessons for this week is all about coding from scratch vs. using some kind of pre-baked code or using exported code from a program. The latter can be helpful, but it’s never a panacea in the world of web development. I knew this, but now I know it even better. Continue Reading…
codeblog: coding html emails vs. html & css (aka “a new frustration” vs. “wow, I can totally do this now” )
CODING HTML EMAILS — Yes this DOES suck
Per last week’s post, I was just starting to get into the details of coding up HTML emails, but hadn’t gotten a chance to really get my hands dirty. And while I still think it will be a very useful skill to have, I can now say from experience that coding HTML emails really does suck and really is dirty. Continue Reading…