Growing up, my dad regaled me with stories of cutting 1/4″ tape with a razorblade to patch audio snippets together. He didn’t have GarageBand, ProTools, or Abelton. The analog world can be more unforgiving than the digital world, and requires a tremendous amount of effort and precision. In the software world, it’s easy to forget the days of analog, too. Instead of programming motherboards, we write… Read More
Peer-to-peer video and video conferencing are changing the way people communicate. Voice and text conversations are great but sometimes you really want to see the person on the other end of the conversation. The addition of facial expressions and visual context enhances the ways in which we can communicate. Video chat works best with a clean design that gets out of your way when you don’t… Read More
Sending and receiving text messages in Ruby is delightfully easy. Whether you are sending appointment reminders or working building a marketing notification system you’ll be up and running in no time after watching this five minute video: Here’s the code from the video for your reference:
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require 'sinatra' require 'twilio-ruby' post '/receive_sms' do content_type 'text/xml' response = Twilio::TwiML::Response.new do |r| r.Message 'Hey thanks for messaging me!' end response.to_xml end post '/send_sms' do # Phone number to send to to = params["to"] # Message to send message = params["body"] client = Twilio::REST::Client.new( ENV["TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID"], ENV["TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN"] ) client.messages.create( to: to, from: "+12155844169", body: message ) end |
What’s Next Now that you have the power of SMS in your toolbelt you can build all sorts of things. Try… Read More
Today, we are happy to introduce volume pricing for call recording storage. This means that, as your volume grows, you will be charged less and less per minute to store recordings. Don’t worry if your volume is still low, the first 10,000 stored minutes of recordings per month are free for you to play with. Call recordings are a precious mine of information about your customers…. Read More
JavaScript has been my go-to language for quite some time now and before that it was Ruby. Both of these languages have a lovely dash of functional programming that I’ve toyed with here and there. It seems functional concepts are becoming more and more prominent amongst the JS community with projects like Redux and Immutable.js gaining popularity. I recently decided to take the dive into functional programming. A… Read More
It’s okay. The League of Legends stream still be there tomorrow. You can tune into a different channel on Twitch for a little while and join the Twilio crew for a non-stop week of Twitch goodness. We’ll be running through a heap of tutorials showing you how to build with Twilio using the frameworks, languages and APIs you already know and love. You’ll also get a… Read More
In March of this year, GameChanger hit a record of 800 million pitches logged. That’s 7,953 times the number of pitches baseball legend Cy Young threw in his entire career. He might have logged his pitches in his day if cell phones were around then. Now, all sports fans need to make a record of their pitches is a phone, and possibly collective agreement on what… Read More
When you load test an app, you do so with a confident estimate of the amount of traffic you’ll receive. Your goal is to find and eliminate the high traffic variable that might cause your app to lag, or a server to tip over. When you’re building an app for Justin Bieber to promote his new album, that high traffic variable can never be fully quantified,… Read More
Jeff Lawson went through three companies before he noticed the trend. In college, Jeff started Versity, an online notetaking marketplace. After receiving funding, he hired a C-level executive to help out. The exec ordered focus groups with college students to determine what they want. Jeff was a college student himself at the time. He knew what college students wanted; no focus group required. This order confounded… Read More