Lorna Mitchell
Vonage Team Member
Lorna is a software engineer with an incurable blogging habit. She tries to tame words and code in equal measure.
Telephone Number Insights from Vonage with Go
Using Vonage's Go SDK to see number insights on telephone numbers
Jan 13, 2021
How to Send WhatsApp Messages With Laravel
How to use the Vonage Messages API Sandbox to get your application set up to send WhatsApp messages with the Laravel 8 framework.
Oct 26, 2020
Surviving Hacktoberfest: A Guide for Maintainers
Hacktoberfest can be quite the experience for maintainers! We asked our most experienced open source project maintainer for her best tips to help y...
Oct 13, 2020
Opening Multiple Pull Requests
Avoid pull request mistakes by setting your local repo up for success. Win Hacktoberfest with this one local repo setup trick.
Oct 06, 2020
Go Explore the Vonage APIs with Vonage Go SDK
The Vonage Go SDK gives greater programmatic access to the Vonage Communications APIs. Find out more more how to use it and how you can contribute.
Sep 30, 2020
How To Debug JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
In this post you'll see some best practices and tips to implement on how to debug issues with JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), regardless of programming lan...
Aug 26, 2020
Build a Simple Customer Support Channel with WhatsApp
Determine between inbound customer support messages using emojis and this simple customer support channel application for WhatsApp.
Aug 12, 2020
Using Private Keys in Environment Variables
Working with private keys can differ a lot between local development and production. Find out how to use environment variables to do this properly!
Jul 29, 2020
Aggiungi l’Autenticazione Forte PSD2 alla Tua App
Scopri come aggiungere alla tua app l'autenticazione dei pagamenti online "Secure Customer Authentication", noto anche come PSD2, con Vonage Verify...
Jun 23, 2020
Add Strong PSD2 Authentication to Your Application
Find out how you can bring your payment authorisations up to PSD2 standards using the Vonage Verify API to confirm user identity
Jun 23, 2020
OpenAPI Makes Easier Integrations
We use the OpenAPI specification extensively in our documentation. Find out more about how having these specs can help you build better integrations.
Jun 03, 2020
Download Vonage Voice API Recordings with Golang
The Vonage Voice API allows you to record users for any number of creative apps. Whatever your aim, learn how you can do it in Golang
May 18, 2020
Text When You Get Home Safely with Zapier
Learn how to use Zapier to send SMS messages at the touch of a button.This tutorial will walk you through the setup step-by-step with no code requi...
Apr 09, 2020
Using GitHub Repository Guidelines to Enhance Developer Experience
We care about Developer Experience, so we produced and shared the repository guidelines that we use to welcome developers to our GitHub repos.
Jan 17, 2020
What Makes an API Product Successful?
In this post, Lorna Jane Mitchell highlights the key points that make an API product successful, as outlined in the 2019 API The Docs talk by Antho...
Dec 06, 2019
Introducing the NCCO Examples Collection
The NCCO examples collection is a place for you to go to explore for one-off, potentially silly(!) examples to use in your Nexmo Voice API applicat...
Oct 25, 2019
Flexible Workflows for Verify API
Nexmo’s Verify API is designed to allow you to confirm that a user has supplied a correct and valid phone number, by sending them a PIN code and as...
Oct 02, 2019
Evaluate APIs Quickly and Easily with OpenAPI
Sharing more best practice knowledge from our own processes, this post explains how you can use Open API Specifications to better your development ...
Sep 13, 2019
Using Message Signatures to Ensure Secure Incoming Webhooks
In this post you'll see why enabling message signing on your inbound webhooks can help protect against timing attacks or malicious incoming data.
Jun 28, 2019
Build a Conference Call with the Nexmo Voice API and PHP
In this tutorial you will learn how to build a conference call "conversation" for multiple participants using PHP and Nexmo.
May 08, 2019
How to Use The Number Insight API with PHP
Find out how to use the Nexmo Number Insight API with PHP to validate, gain useful insight and information about any phone number.
Mar 29, 2019
Nexmo Hackathon at PHP UK 2019
At Nexmo, we are regulars at PHP UK. We’re often sponsors and our Advocates between them have been attending or speaking at the conference for most...
Mar 08, 2019
Make Local Calls with Nexmo Virtual Numbers and Call Forwarding
Use Nexmo to set up a a local rate number for friends and family to call, then forward their call so you can talk to your favourite humans wherever...
Dec 10, 2018
Christmas Poetry Reading Using Text-To-Speech and SSML
Make your text-so-speech sound more natural using Speech Synthesis Markup Language. We explain how to modify prosody and pronunciation with SSML.
Dec 05, 2018
Sending SMS from PHP with Failover: The Cupcake Bakery
In this tutorial we'll look at how you can reach your customers in a manner that suits them using the new Vonage messages API
Oct 23, 2018
Anything-to-SMS with IFTTT and Nexmo
Receive SMS alerts for almost anything; new emails, calendar events, weather alerts and more. Learn how with Nexmo SMS API, IFTTT and serverless PHP
Sep 18, 2018
Serverless SMS Fortune Cookies with Nexmo and IBM
In this fun tutorial we'll build a system that responds to an incoming SMS with a "fortune cookie" using IBM serverless and Nexmo SMS API.
Aug 14, 2018
Lorna Joins Nexmo’s Developer Relations Team
Hello there! I’m Lorna, and I’m a new Developer Advocate on the Developer Relations team at Nexmo. I’m really a software developer, and my roots ar...
Jul 12, 2018