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Speaking in Whispers: Creating a “Whisper” Dialog Using a Tropo Conference

We often get a common request to create a “whisper” dialog, where an inbound call is transferred to a second contact, and that contact has the option to decline the call or accept it. While our transfer doesn’t have that level of functionality, there is a relatively straightforward method using a conference to mimic it. [...]

Receiving & Sending Texts Using Tropo & the Python Framework Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. This blog will discuss how to implement Django with Python to receive and reply to a text message – note that installation instructions will be Mac oriented, if you use Windows you can find some alternate install instructions here. Requirements: [...]

Receiving & Sending Texts Using Tropo & the Python Framework Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. This blog will discuss how to implement Django with Python to receive and reply to a text message – note that installation instructions will be Mac oriented, if you use Windows you can find some alternate install instructions here. Requirements: [...]

Speaking in Whispers: Creating a “Whisper” Dialog Using a Tropo Conference

We often get a common request to create a “whisper” dialog, where an inbound call is transferred to a second contact, and that contact has the option to decline the call or accept it. While our transfer doesn’t have that level of functionality, there is a relatively straightforward method using a conference to mimic it. [...]

Voxeo Speaks #005 – Building a Corporate Blog Portal using WordPress MU

At O'Reilly's OSCON 2009 in San Jose, Voxeo's Dan York spoke about using WordPress MU (WPMU) to create a corporate blog portal. Dan discussed how he used WPMU to create blogs.voxeo.com and specifically the tools he used, the lessons he learned and suggestions he would offer to others. NOTE: The video is very dark and [...]

Speaking in Whispers: Creating a “Whisper” Dialog Using a Tropo Conference

We often get a common request to create a “whisper” dialog, where an inbound call is transferred to a second contact, and that contact has the option to decline the call or accept it. While our transfer doesn’t have that level of functionality, there is a relatively straightforward method using a conference to mimic it. [...]

Using SMSified and Shopify to Connect with Customers

Shopify is awesome if you are looking to set up an online store to start selling your product – they take care of all of the hard stuff, and make getting your online storefront up quick and easy. Shopify also has a great API for building applications to work with your online storefront, or for [...]

Team Attendance Tracking Using an SMS Application

As with any for-fun softball/baseball/kickball/handball league, the availability of players can vary widely from week to week. Life has a habit of interfering, especially if you have kids, so ensuring there’s enough players to field a full team can be a difficult process. Such was the case with the Voxeo softball team, but we’re just [...]

SMS forwarding to an email using MailChimp

Depending on your application, you might receive multiple messages back to back to back – system notifications, alerts, user confirmations and so on – that would be inconvenient to redirect to your phone one by one. As an alternative, how about receiving a full list of the inbound texts sent to you as an email? [...]

SMS forwarding to an email using MailChimp

Depending on your application, you might receive multiple messages back to back to back – system notifications, alerts, user confirmations and so on – that would be inconvenient to redirect to your phone one by one. As an alternative, how about receiving a full list of the inbound texts sent to you as an email? [...]