Archive for June, 2011

Fallback to text to speech if your audio fails

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Here’s a quick tip that’s an answer to a common question: What happens if my audio file cannot be played?

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Telephony Black Magic with Tropo, Node.js and Redis

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

In a previous post and screencast on this blog, I demonstrated an example application that highlights some of the more unique features of Tropo to support realtime applications.

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Building a full-featured conference call application with Tropo and PHP

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Tropo’s conference function makes it easy for you to join multiple callers onto a single call together. One line of code and you have a conference call…

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Tropo Sponsors the Summer of Smart

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Tropo is thrilled to be sponsoring the Summer of Smart program in the City of San Francisco.

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Realtime Conferencing Dashboard with Tropo and Chloe

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

In yet another installment on this blog demonstrating how to build realtime applications with Tropo, I walk you through the process of creating a conferencing dashboard with Tropo and the Chloe realtime web server from Mashion.

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php|tek hackers and winners

Monday, June 20th, 2011

room keys at tek

The hotel room keys from php|tek

At php|tek last month, the Tropo-sponsored hackathon and contest attracted a dozen development projects, nearly 100 people, and lots of hacking with Tropo and other apps.

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Tropo Sponsors CityCamp San Francisco

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Tropo is proud to be a gold sponsor of CityCamp San Francisco, taking place on Saturday, June 18th.

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Testing production applications against new builds

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Tropo maintains two clusters for your applications to run on. Our free developer applications run on one cluster of servers and paid production applications run on a separate cluster. This affects you and your applications in a few ways, and opens up some possibilities for development and testing.

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RHoK 3 Seattle Roundup

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

What an amazing weekend the Tropo team had across the country this weekend, with Tropo representing at simultaneous events in Seattle, Philadelphia, New York City & Raleigh.  In Seattle, Tropo teamed up with Geeks Without Bounds to be the U.S. Main Stage event for Random Hacks of Kindness.  We gathered folks from NASA, Microsoft, Crisis Commons, Code for America and brought together geeks like Chris Pirillo (founder of Gnomedex), Chris Metcalf (Socrata), Mike Laine (Liftport Space Elevator) and Ed Jezierski (CTO of Instedd).

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Tropo Goes To “Raleighwood”

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Tropo will spend the better part of two weeks in the Raleigh, NC area for a series of events, and will be helping hackers and developers of all stripes there to build cutting edge communication apps.

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