Drawing The Owl, 12 Weeks At A Time: One CS Major’s Internship At Twilio
Katie McCorkell (pictured right in many mirrors) is a Computer Science major at the University of Washington, but we prefer to think of her as Katie the owl drawer, the summer intern, the person who...
View ArticleFresno Unified School District Combines Report Cards, Attendance Sheets and...
If you throw a tangled bit of prose at Fresno Unified School District’s teachers, they’ll grab it and unpack it into a digestible lesson for their students. Word problems, math problems, science...
View ArticleBuilding Developer Tools For Developers: Scout Goes Open Source on Server...
Andre Lewis has a mission for his company, Scout: “We’re trying to make ugly things easy and beautiful.” If you’ve answered obnoxious blare of a on-call pager in the middle of the night only to see a...
View ArticleValidate Phone Numbers in Ruby using the Lookup API
How do you know if a phone number is valid? Maybe you wrote a regular expression to validate a phone number. But does that regex work for all phone numbers, or just ten digit American phone numbers?...
View ArticleSmall Farm Central Gives Farmers A New Tool To Drive Business, Twilio’s API
In the pantheon of tools it takes to operate and maintain a farm, a RESTful API is probably not high up on the list. But, Simon Huntley is showing small farm owners how to grow their distribution...
View ArticleThe National Association Of Guide Dog Users Chooses Twilio To Power Their...
There’s a good reason guide dogs have “don’t pet me, I’m working” printed on their harnesses. They may be adorable, but they’re working dogs first and foremost. Guide dogs offer blind men and women...
View ArticleChoose Your Own Adventure Presentations: Wizard Mode Part 2 of 3
In the first part of our Choose Your Own Adventure Presentations Wizard Mode tutorial we set up the necessary code for separating authorized wizards from non-wizards. However, logging in and out of an...
View ArticleGreytruck Makes Databases Friendly, Instantly Accessible Via Twilio SMS
A mangled motorcycle gave the Greytruck CEO, Eric Xavier the opening he needed to dive into entrepreneurship. One of Eric’s riding buddies missed out on a ride when he forgot to take a lock off the...
View ArticleHow A One Man IT Shop Saved His Client Thousands By Switching To Elastic SIP...
The best developers make hard work seem easy. As a one man developer / IT shop, that’s Adam McPhedrain’s job. When one of his clients, a national pharmacy chain, wanted to update their communications...
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