March 2022 – What We’ve Been Up To

Wayne

What the hell is this weather? 19 degrees and shorts last weekend, 2 degrees and snow this weekend! At least the days are getting longer.

During March we added extra security to our hosted websites and always keep servers up-to-date with the latest software available. It’s quite easy to become paranoid with what we’re seeing across Europe; cyber attacks are very much a part of modern day war. We’ve seen Anonymous hack Russian TV stations and, around the same time, websites of large Western corporations were offline (but you won’t hear much about that in our media).

We understand the frustration of a website being down, not least because we have to respond quickly to fix any issues faced by our clients. This frustration is shared around the world and you only have to look at Down Detector to see that all websites suffer some form of outage and downtime.

I have focussed on landing a good variety of projects which really keeps things interesting. Bespoke website development doesn’t just apply to larger businesses. A local hair salon approached us for a new website with functionality to allow them to sell online and offline courses to new customers. This is a work in progress which will allow our client to reach customers beyond the local area and it’s great to see their ambition matches their passion and talent.

Andrew

March has been an exciting month for me at Twilo. I’ve started a new apprenticeship and have been working on fantastic projects.

I spent three days of my first week taking lectures for my new apprenticeship which has been a good refresher on the concepts of development cycles and methodologies. I have learnt new things I was unaware of or did not have substantial knowledge in.

This month has also been a big month for a Mailchimp API I have been developing, this will save us time and open an opportunity to customise what we send to customers. The app will allow us to automatically take customers who are subscribed to the website’s mailing list and move them onto our Mailchimp account. This API also gives us the opportunity to send emails to customers informing them of the points they have earned from their purchases during the previous month.