By now you have noticed that you can place free 10 minute phone calls to any number in the United States and Canada from the PhonoSDK. Are you ready to graduate to longer calls and other powerful features such as conferencing, call recording, user input with touch tones and speech recognition, text-to-speech, and call transfers? This is [...]
Where is IPv6 actually being used? Inspired by a presentation he saw, Mark Prior decided to go out and survey sites from various universities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), corporations and other entities to see who was actually using IPv6 on a daily basis. His survey criteria were pretty straightforward: 1.Web server accessible via IPv6; 2.Email [...]
If you have tried Click-To-Dial example, you might wonder if it is possible to call your home phone or cellular phone, besides the SIP phones. It is definitely possible with Voxeo Prism. In SIP Servlet, a PSTN phone number is represented by a TelURL object based on RFC 3966. For example, here is the code [...]
When running a site like the Voxeo blog portal that features a “network” of different Voxeo blogs one of the ongoing challenges is handling comments. Not whether or not to allow comments… we have a very clear comment policy and publish all comments that comply… but rather just dealing with all the comment spam and [...]
Found a cool tool today that allows you to tail your application’s logs locally via FTP. The tool was created by Will Moffat, and it’s really a nice find! Usage is really quite simple: ftptail -s 1 -f -p password.txt myAcount@ftp.tropo.com/logs/2011-03-24-1600.txt The developer didn’t have this up on GitHub, so I went ahead and [...]
So we do a lot of playing around over here in Labs, and personally I am always looking for ways to make development a bit easier and improve my workflow. Well my friends, I think I finally found “the one” – its called SourceKit and it’s pretty damn cool. It’s a text editor in your [...]
With the end of IPv4 address allocations, it’s no surprise to see that blocks of the remaining IPv4 addresses will be put up for sale. In this case, though, I was surprised by the buyer. Nortel Networks, Inc., has petitioned the bankruptcy court to allow it to sell a block of 666,624 IPv4 addresses to [...]
In the previous post on this project, I walked through a portion of the JavaScript remote call center solution focusing on CouchDB, the CouchApp serving web pages to remote agents and the Phono SDK. In this screencast, I will show you how to connect Asterisk to your CouchDB instance using Node.js. When our solution is [...]
If you like to create communications apps in python, as I do, we’ve got some great news for you… Tropo Scripting just got updated to the latest version 2.5.2 of Jython. What this means for you is that if you ever found that one of the python apps you uploaded to Tropo Scripting wouldn’t run [...]
Since this seems to be the week I post about new open positions (which is a wonderful thing to post about), we have two more openings to mention, both in our office in Cologne, Germany. They were recently posted to our Voxeo Germany site and are visible here: Senior Quality Engineer Quality Engineer The first [...]
