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API Report: Inside Electronic Signatures - Programmable Web

For at least thirty years, people have talked about the “paperless office.” With cloud-based services, it may finally be possible. Yet, for many organizations, a major hang-up is contracts, which require ink signatures.....

Recent Developer News and Events

AngelHack

This weekend DocuSign was at the first AngelHack (www.angelhack.com) hackathon in San Francisco. With nearly 200 people attending (over 150 developers) we were excited to see what applications can be enhanced with the DocuSign API!

Create DocuSign HTTP Header Authentication in .NET

Get started with DocuSign HTTP header authentication for .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.

New API Typography

Did you know that the DocuSign API supports 12 different fonts, 10 colors, 17 sizes, and 3 styles? Thats more than 61,000 combinations you can use to make your Envelopes look just as you like!

Populate Dynamic Tabs in a Template

A recent question on the DocuSign forums asked how to populate pre-placed Tabs in a Template from the API. This is a pretty common use-case for anyone who has a Document they want to mock-up in the Console and has dynamic values that can be updated from the API.

DocuSign and Twilio - Void Envelopes by Phone

What if you could void an Envelope while on the go, without internet service? Now, with access to the DocuSign API and Twilio, we can grab information about Envelopes (and execute actions) from a phone call!

DocuSign DevCenter at Twilio Conference on September 21st and 22nd

Want to learn about the DocuSign API hands-on with our DevCenter team? We'll be sponsoring the Twilio Conference on September 21 and 22 at the Bently Reserve in SF...

Cleanweb Hackathon

Over last weekend, DocuSign sponsored and participated in the Cleanweb Hackathon in San Francisco. In case you've never heard of "Cleanweb" before, it is a word coined by Sunil Paul to describe the merging of technology and information to make resources and capital more efficient. At DocuSign we're helping reduce paper consumption...

Event Recap: Gold Sponsor DocuSign joins 45,000 cloud computing enthusiasts at Dreamforce 2011

DocuSign joined 45,000 attendees this year in what was declared the largest cloud computing event of the year. Here are the key takeaways from DocuSign at Dreamforce 2011...

DocuSign and the Dreamforce 2011 Hackathon

This is 2011. The world is supposed to be instant, paperless, secure, and green. So why are people still printing stuff out and faxing? DocuSign is on a mission to change the world ...

Office Hours: Webinars 2.0

Have you missed the DocuSign API webinars? You’ve gotten so great at using the DocuSign API that the DevCenter had to scrap our webinars and create something that grows with you. With that in mind, we have transformed our webinars into office hours!

The DevCenter Goes to Glue!

Last week, the DocuSign DevCenter flew out to Broomfield, Colorado to attend our first ever Glue Con! Glue is a developer conference that focuses on all the bits and pieces that hold the web together - APIs, hosting, metadata, standards, connectors and more. DocuSign fits that description perfectly by offering an API that lets applications go truly paperless and leverage the leading electronic signature platform.

Themes and Observations from the DocuSign Hackathon

Congratulations and thank you to the winners and participants of the DocuSign Hackathon! I wanted to do a postmortem and share some of my observations. Let's examine the characteristics of the successful teams.

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eSignature API Report

This report introduces the first version of our internal developer program criteria for developer friendliness. ProgrammableWeb looked at the clarity, cost and community aspects of three leading eSignature providers. Download the Free Report