Salsa Weekly Highlight: Developers, Take Salsascript for a Spin

02:44 PM Jan 14, 2010

(From this week's Weekly Highlight email. Click here to sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday!)

It's the "Weekly Salsa Highlight," your quick hit on what's new in Salsa to help get the most out of your online program. And this week's highlight is geared to the tech geeks out there.

As always, you can find plenty of news, updates, and conversation on Salsa Commons. You'll find something else there that's the focus of this week's highlight: the Salsa Developer Zone.

Did you know that with minimal (HTML + Javascript) technical knowledge, you can create your own custom Salsa apps? We call our standards-driven programming language "Salsascript", and you can get a free developer account today to start creating and sharing custom Salsa "packages".

For instance, in an intro to SalsaScript given at a Developers' Bootcamp this week, Salsa engineer Jesse built an SMS text messaging application completely in SalsaScript from start to finish, and concluded the session by texting all the participants. (Super cool, huh?) But engineering expertise is not required: with a bit of Javascript knowledge, you too can cook Salsa to taste.

Want to find out how to customize Salsa apps? We're turning our Developers' Bootcamp into a recurring series, with the next sessions slated for early March. If you'd like to be sure you're in the loop or have some topics you'd like us to cover, drop a line to geoff at salsalabs dot com.

Does this seem exciting, but a bit above your skill level? Our API, which requires nothing more than HTML to start customizing Salsa forms, will ease you into the wonderful world of development. Contact members of our engineering team at developers at salsalabs dot com to learn more.

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