Monthly Archives: June 2011

Committing Random Hacks of Kindness in Atlanta

Random Hacks of Kindness (or RHoK) is a worldwide community that brings together expert volunteers in software engineering, design and crisis response.  It focuses on developing practical open source solutions to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation challenges. Twice a … Continue reading →

Posted by Andrew Watson on June 9, 2011 Tagged , , ,

Dan Hawkins Wins Our Scratch Your Own Itch Developer Contest

For our last contest, we put out an interesting challenge: rather than use Twilio’s API to make something interesting, we asked developers to make something that helps make interesting applications. Tools like localtunnel and postbin are awesome, and we wanted … Continue reading →

Posted by Rahim Sonawalla on June 8, 2011 Tagged , , ,

Introducing Andrew Watson, Our New Developer Evangelist

My name is Andrew Watson and I’m a Twilio Developer Evangelist.  I’ll be focusing on OpenVBX and the community of developers that has been writing plugins for it and building applications on top of it. I started using Twilio in … Continue reading →

Posted by admin on June 7, 2011 Tagged , ,

Need Help Running Effective Meetings? Lucid Meetings Solves Your Problem

We met Elise, John, Chris and Tony at Gov 2.0 is Washington D.C. last year. Their latest venture, Lucid Meetings, was created when they grew increasingly frustrated with existing online meeting tools and decided they could do better. While the … Continue reading →

Posted by admin on June 6, 2011 Tagged , , ,

Chicago API Hackday Recap

Wheels down ORD at 6 AM Saturday morning. It was another redeye for me, but I had more energy than I thought I would. A coder’s high, if you will. Though this past Saturday was Chicago’s first API Hackday, we … Continue reading →

Posted by Rahim Sonawalla on June 3, 2011 Tagged , ,

TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon 2011 Recap

Two weeks ago, Danielle and I took redeye flights from San Francisco and Los Angeles to join five hundred hackers as they descended on New York City’s Pier 94 on an unusually sunny Saturday morning. Without a doubt, this was … Continue reading →

Posted by Rahim Sonawalla on June 2, 2011 Tagged , ,

How To Create SMS Payment Notifications for FreshBooks Using Twilio

Ah, there’s nothing like the feeling of getting paid. Using the Twilio SMS API and the FreshBooks API, we can easily create a web app that let’s you experience that feeling no matter where you are. In this tutorial, we’re … Continue reading →

Posted by Rahim Sonawalla on June 1, 2011 Tagged , , , ,