Pragmatic Programmers

Philipp Schmid — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:18:26 +0000

I absolutely love the books from “The Pragmatic Programmers“. They are really well written and the cool thing is, you can get them as DRM free PDF. And the even cooler thing is, you buy and read them while there are being written!

How great is that?

Below is a screenshot of my Pragmatic Bookshelf and I can recommend all of the books, except the “iPhone SDK Development” – because I haven’t read it yet.

And if you buy the ebook version (and I usually do, as I don’t like hard copy books for technical literature ) and they correct any errors in the book, you get a free update.

Sometimes they even add further chapters or in case of “Hello Android”, they updated the whole book for a completely new SDK release!

My Pragmatic Bookshelf

SMS Gateway

Philipp Schmid — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:35:41 +0000

I have yet to try them out, but Clickatell seems like a nice, developer friendly SMS gateway.

UPDATE:

They offer a trail account where you get a few messages for free (although they override the message content with a default text), so I couldn’t resist and tried it out.

It’s really a matter of minutes if not seconds to get started:

schmidp@dna:~$ curl -i “http://api.clickatell.com/http/sendmsg?user=$USER&password=$PASSWORD&api_id=$APIID &to=$TO&from=$FROM&text=$TEXT”

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:59:22 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

ID: 352178af3b24f03ef83997de1024eead
schmidp@dna:~$

I have not yet compared their prices with other gateway providers, but I don’t have a real need for it now.

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