Pomodoro timers are not only used in the kitchen, but they are also used to assist in daily productivity. The purpose of this particular timer is to promote the concept of working on a task for 25 minutes then taking a short break afterwards.

With the assistance of Twilio, you can be notified with a text message about your next break by clicking on a button on a webpage.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build your own pomodoro timer using Java Spring Boot and Twilio Programmable Messaging services.

Tutorial requirements

• Refer to this Twilio article to set up a Java Spring Boot application that can be hosted on the web.
• Java Development Kit (JDK) version 8.
• A Twilio account. If you are new to Twilio click here to create a free account now and receive $10 credit when you upgrade to a paid account. You can review …

Recently, my colleague Niels wrote an excellent post showing how to build URL shortener using .NET, and Redis. On reading it, I was so inspired that I decided to build my own URL shortener with PHP and PostgreSQL instead of .NET and Redis, as I know those technologies far better.

So what’s so fascinating about building a URL shortener? Especially when there are quite a number of other ones, such as Bit.ly, Short.io, or Twilio Messaging Services Link Shortening service. To be honest, the concept just grabbed my attention and inspired me.

It doesn’t have all of the features you’d likely expect in a professional service, such as URL customisation, analytics and click tracking, branded links, or the ability to add CTAs (Calls To Action). However, it does contain the essentials.

Tutorial Prerequisites

To follow along with this tutorial you will need the following:

• Docker Engine …

Texting is one of the most common forms of communication in our modern age. Twilio provides a simple and easy-to-use interface for sending SMS text messages through their SMS API.

In this tutorial, you'll be using the Twilio SMS API to create your very own CLI texting application using Python and the Typer framework.

If you're unfamiliar, Typer is a Python library for creating CLI applications. Typer is easy to use, and intuitive to write. It borrows these features from its sister, the FastAPI framework, written by the same author.

Prerequisites

In order to complete this tutorial, you will need the following:

• A Twilio account, and Twilio CLI installed. (I'll show instructions on how to do this.) If you haven't signed up yet, sign up for a free Twilio trial.
• A Twilio phone number. (Learn how to buy a Twilio phone number.)

Install Twilio CLI, and setup …

URLs are used to locate resources on the internet, but URLs can be long making them hard to use. Especially when you have to type the URL manually, even more so when having to do so on a mobile phone. Long URLs are also problematic when you have a limited amount of characters such as within an SMS segment or a Tweet.

A solution to this is to use a URL shortener which will create URLs that are short and sweet. When you open the shortened URL, the URL will forward you to the long destination URL. This makes it easier to manually type the URL and also save precious characters.

The benefit of having a phone number verification system in today’s business environment cannot be overemphasized as it helps to fight fake account fraud through the delivery of a time-based one time password code. This TOTP provides a good level of security to a user in a user-friendly approach.

The Twilio Verify API provides an additional level of account security through sign-up protection and throughout the user’s journey. Therefore, businesses everywhere rely on it as a way of authenticating users and proving that a phone number is valid, accessible and still functional.

This tutorial will focus on building a phone number verification system using the Spring Boot framework and the Twilio Verify APIto verify a user’s phone number.

You can also visit the Twilio official documentation to learn more about other available Twilio APIs and systems that are supported.

Tutorial requirements

To follow along with this tutorial, you’ll need …

Twilio is all about powering communication – and doing it conveniently and fast. Our Programmable Messaging service has been available for a long time, but until now, scheduling a message to be sent at a future time required a developer to use their own scheduling solution.

Fortunately, this is now a thing of the past! With Message Scheduling, you can send your scheduled SMS and MMS messages with a single API call, without using custom schedulers.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to send scheduled SMS notifications in Java.

Tutorial requirements

• Java Development Kit (JDK) version 8.
• A Twilio account. If you are new to Twilio click here to create a free account now and receive $10 credit when you upgrade to a paid account. You can review the features and limitations of a free Twilio account.
• A phone capable of receiving SMS to test the project. …

If you own or manage a website, you likely want to know what pages your users visit the most. A popular way to obtain this information is to use a web analytics service such as Google Analytics, which uses cookies to keep track of your activity on the site. This approach can be problematic because it isn’t mindful of the online privacy of your site’s visitors. In many jurisdictions, most importantly in the European Union countries, users must provide explicit consent before tracking cookies can be installed on their browsers.

In this article you are going to learn how to record visits to a Python web application written with the Flask web framework. Page views will be captured in a completely anonymous and private manner and without tracking cookies, which is made possible by the flexibility of the Twilio Segment platform. As an additional benefit, this solution is implemented …