Archive for February, 2011
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Has this ever happened to you?
You’re feeling a bit randy so you decide to head over to your local coworking facility or hacker dojo to get some work done. Although it’s a bit of an odd hour, the caffeine is pumping in your veins and you’re raring to code up the next big thing.
Unfortunately, when you get to your coworking site your realize that the door is locked, and you don’t know who is inside to call or send a message to so they may come and let you in. Bummer!
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Tags: couchdb, coworking, PHP, tropo scripting
Posted in IM, PHP, Screencasts, Tropo | 2 Comments »
Sunday, February 27th, 2011
Tags: outbound, phone, rails, reminders, Ruby, SMS, source, Tropo
Posted in Cool, Open Source, Ruby, SMS, SourceCode, Tropo | No Comments »
Saturday, February 26th, 2011
Since random number generation is a common “first app” for people learning a new language, we decided to add a new tutorial showing an application that utilizes the math functions of each of the five supported languages (JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Python & Groovy) to create the Chance Facilitator in Tropo.
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Saturday, February 26th, 2011
Yesterday in Philadelphia, Tropo had the pleasure of taking part in the Data Camp event sponsored by Code for America.
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Tags: IM, opengov, philadelphia, PHP, SMS
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
Tropo just recently partnered with PamFax to deliver faxing capabilities via an API. Jason Goecke wrapped their API with a very simple Ruby gem called pamfaxr available at GitHub and installable using a “gem install pamfaxr” from your command line. Using the PamFaxr Ruby gem, I will demonstrate how to send a simple fax as well as how to build a Tropo Voice to Fax transcription application using our Scripting API!
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Tags: fax, Multi-channel, Ruby, screencast, scripting api, sinatra, speech, transcription, tunnlr, Video
Posted in applications, Cool, Multi-channel, Ruby, Samples, Screencasts, SourceCode, Tropo, Video | 4 Comments »
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Tags: baby monitor, phono, sip, Skype, Tropo, voip
Posted in Audio, Cool, JavaScript, Multi-channel, Open Source, Ruby, Samples, Skype, SourceCode, Tropo | No Comments »