A great month for all of us at Twilo, find out why...
Wayne
This month we welcomed a new front-end website developer to our team. Jordan has settled in really quickly and has made a big effort to get on board with Twilo’s standards and processes. I find recruitment to be one of the hardest aspects of running a business as it’s time consuming and a big gamble, but the team is looking as strong as ever now and we’re producing some excellent work.
Speaking of which, we’re very close to launching a few custom e-commerce websites featuring custom functionality. We seem to have fallen into a niche of custom product commerce, having produced websites for businesses selling personalised cards, blankets, canvasses and now party banners. It’s slightly too soon to share anything visual with you, but expect a flurry of new websites to be announced on our social media in the coming weeks with some visuals prepared for next month’s blog post.
Media scaremongering has been a common topic of conversation in the office recently. One particular headline had us chuckling into our coffee which read “thousands could die from extreme heat”. The reality was quite different. We enjoyed a couple of days of glorious weather and we all finished work a couple of hours early to enjoy the sunshine.
UK heatwave maps past and present.
Past:
Cheery sunshine graphics☀️Present:
Scorched earth 🔥 pic.twitter.com/mzk7kShIrS— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) July 14, 2022
Back to things we can control…
A well-deserved knees-up was had by Team Twilo, with our partners in tow, enjoying a great summer outing. Starting with pizza and Peroni followed by a few winners at Doncaster Races, rounded off by a great live performance from Nile Rodgers & Chic. I think we all had a lot of fun (maybe too much 🤢) and it was great to see the team enjoying themselves away from the demands of the office.
Andrew
Coming of age!Despite the unbearable heat, July has been a fantastic month! Not only was it my 21st birthday, it was filled with great achievements. One highlight is the development of a new OpenCart modification that will substantially improve productivity for clients.
With this new modification to orders, it is really simple to change the order status of multiple orders at the same time. This can be done by ticking the checkbox next to each order or by copying order IDs from a file. This is brilliant for avoiding the tedious job of going through many orders manually and changing the status. If a comment is needed, you would now only have to type the comment once. Previously, this would have to be done for each order that needed updating.
Admittedly it does sound a little dreary, but it is a bespoke modification and the time saved will be invaluable. This is an aspect we look to focus on at Twilo, alongside innovative web development solutions, we also look at ways to further support businesses where we can.
