The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode, an interview with Keith Casey, a developer evangelist at Twilio.

Cal's "three questions" for Keith revolve around his work with REST and how it relates to the Twilio API:

• What new technology do you see up and coming that will effect PHP developers the most?
• What's the most important part of REST that PHP or other developers aren't getting?
• What's one feature that developers don't know enough about in the Twilio API that you think they should?
• Bonus Question: Some information about HubAustin

You can listen to this latest episode either via the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 directly or by subscribing to their feed.

In this latest post to his blog Justin Carmony looks at a system he created to hook his Nagios notifications into the Twilio web service and have it notify him via SMS with something was wrong.

In the past I would just use my iPhone's email-to-txt email address. However, when I received the txt message, it wasn't formated very pretty, and it would have a different "From Number." So if we had a crazy day, I would have 20-30 message threads in my iPhone all about Nagios. [...] What I like out this setup is with Twilio, I can buy a phone number for $1 a month. So all my notifications come through the same number.

He's included the PHP code he uses to send the notifications (using the Twillo library) and the Nagios commands he configured to send the notifications to that script via the command line.