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Box Developer Newsletter: August 2017
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Box Developer Newsletter: August 2017

Register for BoxWorks 2017

BoxWorks is our annual conference that brings together Box customers, users, partners, developers, and other technology leaders to learn what's new with Box and discuss the future of work. This year, you can join hundreds of other developers from around the world for two days of keynotes, developer-focused sessions, demos, developer training and more. 

You can use code 17worksdevcon for $400 off registration.
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Product Updates

Introducing Representations

At Box, one of our goals is to help you get more value out of all the content you store in Box. Whenever a file is uploaded to Box, it goes through a process to generate various digital representations of that file. We leverage many of these different representations for various purposes, like grabbing thumbnail images for files that we display in our grid view. Today, we're enabling you to take advantage of these different assets with a new service in our APIs called Representations.

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Bring image recognition and OCR to your apps with Box Platform

Box introduced powerful new machine learning capabilities for images stored in Box. Leveraging the Google Cloud Vision API, images stored in Box can now be automatically analyze and labeled, helping Box customers better organize, tag, and search across image files in Box. These same capabilities are now available to developers to take advantage of in any applications built on the Box Platform.

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3 new features for videos in Box Content Preview

We introduced three new features to our HD video player that enable a best-in-class video viewing experience for every user. These new features make it even easier to work with videos in the Box web application and also ensure that the Box video player is in compliance with WCAG 2.0. Box Content Preview now supports closed captioning, keyboard shortcuts, and screen-readable controls.
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Upcoming Events

Webinar: Getting to Know the Box UI Elements

To help make building with Box Platform even easier, we've taken parts of the Box application and made them available for you to bring to your own apps with just a few lines of code with the Box UI Elements. 

 

In this webinar, you will:

  • Get a close-up look at each of the Box UI Elements
  • Learn how the UI Elements work with a quick tutorial
  • See examples of the Box UI Elements in action
  • Ask questions in our live Q&A
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Box Developer Training at BoxWorks 2017
For the first time ever at BoxWorks, you can learn the ins and outs of the Box Platform and APIs with the Box Developer Training Program (BDTP). For enterprise IT and app developers, the BDTP is an opportunity to deeply understand how to leverage the Box Platform to bring cloud content management to any application.
 
The Box Developer Training Program has limited capacity and is only open to BoxWorks registrants.
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September Virtual API Office Hours
Got questions about the Box API? Join us for an upcoming API office hours sessions on September 12th or September 25th at 1:00pm PST.

Whether you are running into an issue with our API or you want to know best practices for implementing a specific use case, you can ask us anything related to the Box API!
Register for September 12th
Register for September 25th

Community Updates

Tutorial: Fetch watermarked PDFs from Box using Representations, Python, and Flask

As many of you may have already seen, we recently launched the new Representations service, which allows you to pull different representations of your files, such as watermarked PDFs. In this tutorial, Jonathan LeBlanc, Director of Developy Advocacy at Box, shows how to create a service to fetch these watermarked PDFs using Python and Flask.
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Tutorial: Box UI Elements in practice using Node, Express, and Pug

Several weeks ago we launched Box Elements, allowing you to embed highly customizable UI components into your site or app. In this tutorial, Jonathan LeBlanc, Director of Developy Advocacy at Box, shows how to build an end-to-end integration of the Box UI Elements using Node, Express, and Pug.
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App Showcase: Dealpath
Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, Dealpath is the leading deal management software platform for commercial real estate investment and development teams. Dealpath provides commercial real estate deal teams with smart pipeline tracking, collaborative deal management and powerful reporting to achieve optimal outcomes. Dealpath is a web-based application that leverages the Box Platform APIs and is built in AngularJS, Ruby and MySQL.
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Box Developer Jobs

Are you a master of the Box APIs? Customers are looking for developers to help build apps with Box. Check out these job postings in the Box Developer Forum.