Overview of SendGrid and Postman

Speaker: David Bicanic
December 14, 2017

Ever wonder if there was a better way to send Emails?  What if you could see when a user received and opened an email? Now you can with the help of SendGrid.

We'll discuss: 

• How to set up a call to SendGrid using ColdFusion.
• Using a template to send a plain text email as an HTML email.
• Looking at the analytics of a sent email. 

How do we call our SendGrid Function?  We could use a front facing CFM file, but we’ll be using Postman.  Postman is "…a powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API requests through testing, documentation, and sharing."  I’ll show how to do basic functionality, and how it can be used to test your work.

David Bicanic

David is a Junior Developer for American Access Casualty Company. He has been working with CFML since 2016, and also has experience with Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and SQL. He originally got his Business Administration degree from Carroll University. After dabbling in the business world for a few years, he decided to shift to programming.

Diving in head first, he attended Dev Bootcamp, a 20-week developer training program, designed to give developers the tools they need to be successful. Upon joining American Access, he has continued to learn, building complex APIs, and creating new web applications.