Category Archives: Developer Productivity

Queue: The Gathering

Twilio recently added the ability to use the <Gather> verb in the TwiML you use to provide a callers experience while in a queue. This opens up lots of interesting possibilities for changing what would normally be a bland and … Continue reading →

Posted by Devin Rader on March 4, 2013 Tagged ,

Ducksboard for Twilio: A New Way To Monitor Your Twilio Metrics

A few months ago we released our Usage API, which allows developers to make a single API request to get their usage stats for a given time period. This way, companies can build dashboards or internal tools to figure out … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on February 19, 2013 Tagged , ,

Building a Real-time SMS Voting App Part 3: Scaling Node.js and CouchDB

This is the third in a four-part series of blog posts on building a real-time SMS and voice voting application using Node.js. In part one, we created the Node.js application and captured incoming votes over SMS. In part two, we … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on January 16, 2013 Tagged , , , , , ,

Sending Images via SMS with Filepicker and Twilio

If you are a web developer, you know that handling file uploads is not fun. You are either spending time dealing with files and permissions, or learning how your language handles MIME multipart encoding. Then there is the problem of … Continue reading →

Posted by Joel Franusic on January 15, 2013 Tagged , ,

Top 5 Twilio Holiday Hacks

The holidays are here! Finally extra time to work on your own projects or start a new one.  Whether you’re looking to hack hardware, try something different or work on something in progress, here is a list of fun projects … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on December 21, 2012 Tagged , ,

Wyld Collective Builds At The Intersection of Art and Tech with Twilio SMS

Geographers haven’t pinpointed the intersection of design and tech, but based on my interview with WyldCo, I’m beginning to suspect it’s in Montreal. Montreal based Wyld Collective is a team of designers, coders, entrepreneurs and artists all working together. This … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on December 11, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Connecting Twilio SMS to Google Spreadsheet

TwilioSheet is a little utility that makes it easy for developers to receive SMS messages in a Google Spreadsheet. I write a lot of simple little SMS applications, but they can be daunting at times. I often wonder if the … Continue reading →

Posted by Joel Franusic on November 28, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Creating Customer Notifications with JIRA, GreenHopper, Zapier and Twilio SMS

This is a guest post from Nicholas Muldoon, a GreenHopper & Agile Expert for Atlassian, the good people behind JIRA. Nick details how integrate webhooks in JIRA with Twilio SMS to notify customers when their service request needs attention. You … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on November 9, 2012 Tagged , , , ,

Building Twilio Apps Using ASP.NET MVC 4 Web API

This is the second post in a two part series by Long Le, a .NET Enterprise Architect and Solutions Architect at Computer Sciences Corporation. You can read part one here. Long is an avid blogger and a serious Modern Warfare … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on November 8, 2012 Tagged , , , , ,