In the last couple of years, there have been some significant changes in the development landscape that have elevated the status of JavaScript.
Archive for November, 2010
JavaScript Goes First Class With Tropo
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010Use Bespin to edit your Tropo applications!
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010So part of our job here in Labs it to evaluate new tech, and while looking at some HTML5 editors we ran across Bespin, which is really pretty darn cool! We quickly realized that you could then use this tool to edit your own hosted Tropo files, simply by adding the Mozilla bookmarklet to your browser! It’s really a super simple to setup, all you need to do is drag this bookmarklet ( Bespin ) to your browser ( Only Chrome / Safari / Firefox need apply, sorry IE :P).
Using One Line of Python with Tropo to Send SMS Notifications
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Something Fun and Quick To Make – the Toddler Amusement Line!
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Hacking Awesomeness in Baltimore
Sunday, November 21st, 2010Tropo was in Charm City this weekend for the first Baltimore Hackathon, which took place at Beehive Baltimore – a co-working space in Baltimore’s Canton neighborhood.
Simple POST and GET interface to Tropo SMS
Friday, November 19th, 2010Tropo’s coding model is designed around conversations. Ask a question, get an answer, ask something else, get another answer. Through grammars and our ask() functions, we make it easy to rapidly build a powerful automated phone or text conversation.
Tropo DTMF to XMPP IM Relay
Friday, November 19th, 2010
Are you building real-time gaming applications that use the phone (Voice or DTMF touch-tone) and require immediate response to your application? Ever wondered how to get input from a caller at the speed of light – rather than traditional AJAX API calls?
What is a SMS “short code”? How do you get one for your Tropo app?
Friday, November 19th, 2010
Text2Play Makes ProgrammableWeb’s Mashup of the Day!
Thursday, November 18th, 2010Congratulations to Aniss Bouraba for his Text2Play application making Programmable Web’s Mashup of the Day! Text2Play is an example in how to use Comet to build a real time web application. With Text2Play you can control the YouTube player by Searching, Playing, or Pausing a video via SMS.
Random Hacks of Kindness and International Open Data Hackathon
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010Tropo is joining Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, The World Bank and NASA at the Random Hacks of Kindness Hackathon (RHoK #2) on December 4-5 in San Francisco and Seattle!
