ESDAO a multi-player strategy game and Boxcar!
ESDAO is an acronym for explore survive dominate and obliterate. It’s also an awesome game.
Whoa. Right?
And that’s exactly how I felt, too, when I first looked at how ESDAO integrated Boxcar to deliver notifications. It’s seamless and an excellent example of the power of Boxcar. When Nahum first started posting in our help forums providing feedback about our API, we knew he was up to something cool. Little did we know just how cool. Nahum created ESDAO in his spare time and it’s obvious how much effort and love he has put into it. In his own words, Nahum describes ESDAO:
“ESDAO is a multi-player strategy game sort of like Risk, Chess or even Settlers of Catan. Each game typically has 8-12 players and lasts about 50 turns. Players all do their turns simultaneously with 24 hours allocated for each round. ESDAO isn’t a game where you can just attack all players and survive, you must negotiate with some to become allies so you don’t have to protect all your borders whilst attacking others.”
After you’ve signed up for ESDAO, be sure to checkout how to use Boxcar with ESDAO!
For years we’ve looked forward to cracking open the nugget of brilliance known as a fortune cookie. Let’s briefly look over the exciting and storied history (ha) of fortune cookie developments:
- 20th Century (California immigrants) popularize the crisp cookies based on traditional Japanese crackers.
- Benkyodo in SF and Hong Kong Noodle Company in LA both lay claim to first inventing the cookie, circa early 1900s.
- In 1979 (Version 7 Unix) brought fortune cookies to computers.
- In 2011 (Boxcar v4) brought fortune cookies to push notifications.
And… there you have it! You can now magically get a daily fortune every day via Boxcar. It’s just like cracking open a cookie without the unnecessary calories.
NEW: uTorrent Notifications for Boxcar!
Eric Holmes, the author of uTorrent Notifier wrote in to let us know that you can now receive Boxcar notifications for uTorrent!
In Eric’s words, “uTorrent Notifier is an application that runs in the system tray and connects to a remote uTorrent process to notify you when new torrents are added, a download completes, etc.”
Very cool, and thank you for adding “Boxcar Inside”!
NEW SERVICE: Is San Francisco Shaking?
We love San Francisco and we don’t really like earthquakes. What more is there to say?
Find out whether or not the movement beneath your feet is just your imagination — especially if it’s about 2AM on a Friday night — or if it’s really an earthquake!
Visit Is San Francisco Shaking to learn more, or add the service directly in Boxcar!
Checkout our User API! It’s dead simple and an easy way to get even more value out of Boxcar if you’re a developer.
And when you’re ready to graduate to sending notifications to LOTS of people, head on over to read through our Provider API. :)
We also just published our boxcar_api gem (checkout the source here!). It makes integrating with Boxcar just like eating cake: tasty and delicious. Or something like that.
Ruby not for you? Python fan instead? Checkout Push.py, created by Will Goring. Awesome!
Making it even easier to send notifications as a provider
I’m pleased to announce that we now also allow sending of notifications by hashed email address, in addition to the existing service token/secret method.
The original thought process behind a token/secret for each service was for those of you that wanted to allow a user to add your Provider multiple times. In that case, each service had to have it’s own separate token/secret in order to make sure you push it to the correct service.
For those providers that only allow a single installation of their service, then pushing by the users hashed e-mail address is 1000x easier than storing the token/secret for each service.
The provider API documentation has already been updated, so be sure to check it out!
