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API the Docs Recap
Serizawa2018-05-27
I am a technical writer in charge of developer documentation for the LINE Platform.
Hi, my name is Serizawa and I'm a technical writer in LINE. LINE has a program that allows engineers to attend overseas conferences on company expense so that they can grasp the latest technology trends. In this article, I'd like to share my report on API the Docs, the API documentation conference that I attended, thanks to the program. API the Docs is an event specialized in API documentation and is held around the world for technical writers, API developers, product owners, and evangeli
- Technical Writing
Osaka Developer Meetup 3/30 - Mobile
Upadhyay Parth2018-05-17
LINE Engineer
My name is Parth Upadhyay and I’m a Server Side Engineer on the LINE Shop Team, currently working in Fukuoka. I had the chance to attend our most recent Developer Meetup in Osaka, see some presentations by LINE Engineers, and connect with the developer community there. Today I'd like to share some of what was discussed and my general impressions from the meetup. Session Overview The theme of this meetup was mobile, and we had engineers from across the stack give presentations about things
- LINE Developers Meetup
- meetup
Sending notifications to Clova devices with IFTTT
Rei Sasaki2018-05-11
I am in charge of developer relations for LINE Clova.
Here is our first post on Clova after its release. Today, I'd like to talk about integrating Clova with IFFFF which allows us to do things like sending a notification to Clova devices when a new post is uploaded on the LINE Engineering blog. Before we start, let us find out what IFTTT is first. At the time of posting, the service introduced here is only available in Japan.What is IFTTT?IFTTT, short for 'If this, then that', and is a web platform that can be integrated with various service
- Clova
- IFTTT
Floor map management system on web, with Leaflet
Yasunori Iwatsuki2018-04-02
LINE IT支援室で社内システムの開発と運用を担当しています。
LINE Japan's office relocated in April, 2017 to JR Shinjuku Miraina Tower to accommodate its growing number of staff. At the time of relocation, the IT support department introduced a number of new systems into the company. One of those is the LINE Floor Map system which I am going to share with you in this post.Background story Before we moved to Shinjuku, we used to manage our floor map with Microsoft Excel. Here is a part of the excel file. (We've erased names off from the screenshot.)
- Floor map
- Map
[Event Report] LINE Fukuoka Developers Host Hackathon
LINE Engineering2018-03-25
LINE Engineering Blog official account
Held for the first time in 2016, the immensely popular Hackathon—held by the engineers in LINE Fukuoka’s Development Department— recently came to a close. Just like its inaugural event, many of the engineers enthusiastically took part in this occasion. They were given a time frame of two days each to develop and present their ideas, and the final demonstration took place in Beppu of Oita Prefecture, which is well-known for its Jigoku Meguri (Hell Tour) and onsens (hot springs).
- LINE Fukuoka
Introducing Developer Relations team
Yusuke Kushii2018-03-20
In charge of actively and creatively promoting the technologies of LINE both in and out of the company. Also in charge of operations of LINE Developer Day 2016.
This is Kushii from the Tech PR team at LINE. Some of you may already know me for running the Japanese blog. I've recently become a member of the Developer Relations team which was set up not so long ago. I wanted have an opportunity to introduce the team to you, so here we go. Our objectives Here are what our team is committed to: Encouraging people to make attractive and interesting services using the APIs and the SDK by LINE Letting people know how fun and exciting it is for engineers to wo
- Developer Relations
LINE x Amazon: Technical discussion
Sho Tachibana2018-03-15
I am a technical evangelist for the LINE platform, including LINE Messaging API and LINE Login.
We recently had a technical discussion with Amazon at their HQ, Seattle. Fifteen Liners from Planning, Sales, Development and Evangelism participated in the event, and I participated as a facilitator. My guess is that you'd want to find out what discussed, but unfortunately, all I can share with you for now is the non-technical aspects of the trip. So, I'll briefly share some of the pictures. The purpose of having the discussion was to increase the synergy between our businesses and also
Bot Designer for previewing conversation with chatbots
Kazuki Nakajima2018-03-14
LINE Engineer
What is a Bot Designer? Bot Designer is an application which allows you to simulate and preview a conversation with a chatbot. With the LINE Messaging API, you can make a bot send various types of messages such as texts, images, stickers, locations to a LINE user. To check how these messages are actually displayed on the LINE app, what you had to was to create a JSON object representing the message, call the Messaging API, and then check the sent message on the LINE app. Now, with Bot Designer,
- LINE Messaging API
LINE opens community site for third party developers
Kazuki Nakajima2018-03-12
LINE Engineer
We are very pleased to announce that we have opened a new site, the LINE Developers community site, which you can easily access from the existing LINE developers site. Note the links are added on the top navigation bar and the left-hand side menu of the developer site. We hope the site to provide access to various services developed with the LINE API by third party developers, and also a container to stack technical information and know-how on the services developed. Currently, the site p
- Dev Culture
The structure of the LINE LIVE's encoder layer
Suhyuk Kim2018-03-05
Bridge Engineering
On December 10th of 2017, we celebrated our second anniversary for LINE LIVE, our live streaming service. The service has been up and running ever since the launch with no trouble, thanks to the efforts put in by countless engineers at LINE. On this blog post, as a member of ITSC, a team at LINE running a global infrastructure system, I'd like to share with you some of decisions we had to make in the initial phase of designing and implementing the system. Back then, I had absolutely no experienc
- LINE LIVE