Archive for the ‘node.js’ Category

Control your Christmas lights by phone using Arduino and Tropo

Monday, November 26th, 2012

Get into the holiday spirit with this fun hack by Tropo developer Anthony Webb.  This video demonstrates how you can hack your G-35 Holiday Lights by mashing them up with Arduino, Tropo, Nodejs, and a little dash of Ruby code.   It also shows the speed of Tropo’s scripting engine using TCP sockets. This allows for extremely low latency, as opposed to simple web callback methods.

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Node.JS Magic 8 Ball Voice App

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Remember the Magic 8 Ball game from yesteryear?

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Dial and SMS your APIs with Tropo

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

The number of APIs available are increasing by the day and so is the popularity of Node.JS, the server-side event-driven javascript framework. This got me thinking… How cool would it be to be able to call or sms an API with your phone using Node.JS?

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LA .NET Hackathon 2011

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Tropo is partnering with the LA .NET Developers Group and Outlook Amusements to sponsor this weekend’s LA (Burbank) Hackathon at Outlook Amusements on Saturday, December 10, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM (PT).

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Info Balloon: Multi-language Location-based Tropo Mashup

Monday, October 10th, 2011

In this post I’d like to tell you about the latest project I’ve been working on, which is built using the Tropo API. It’s an elaboration of the “Moveable” series of apps, which I have written about previously here. It’s also supercharged with some ideas lifted directly from Telephony Black Magic, originally presented by  Mark Headd.

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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 Publish / Subscribe Apps with Tropo and Redis

Monday, April 4th, 2011

In a number of previous posts on this site, we’ve talked about the unique nature of Tropo to support persistent sockets for real time applications.

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JavaScript Remote Call Center Solution: Part 3

Monday, March 28th, 2011

As promised in a previous post, this entry will conclude a series we started over on the Phono blog discussing an effort to build a remote call center solution in JavaScript.

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Using Tropo for a Remote Call Center Solution

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Phono jQuery library for browser-based phone apps. Over on the Phono blog, we’re doing a series of posts on a new project to build a remote call center solution with Phono and other JavaScript components.

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Build Node.js apps for Tropo that use voice, SMS, IM and Twitter and host them at NodeFu

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

NodeFu-1.jpgHave you been itching to try out Node.JS for a real-time communication app? Perhaps a voice application? Or a SMS or IM agent? Or a Twitter-bot? Did you read about our Node.js library for the Tropo Web API released back in October and think “That would be a cool way to learn Node.js!” But have been put off by not having a server on the Internet where you could run your Node.JS apps? (more…)