Want your web app to talk on the phone? Try Tropo!
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
I recently started a project to collect sales data from a couple hundred stores where the only technology assumption I could make was that the store owner would have a phone. A while back, one of the smart guys in my local Ruby user group talked about Asterisk (a software-based PBX) and Adhearsion (a lovely Ruby framework that takes a lot of the grunt work out of Asterisk setup). I asked him for advice and he suggested Tropo , a hosted telephony service.
See rest of postHeroku and Hobo ROCK!
Monday, March 15, 2010
It’s been too long since I posted here. A new job takes up a lot of my spare brain cycles. I’m doing a lot of python work at the Albany, NY office of solutionset where I am a Database Integration Engineer. A great place to work, but keeps me hopping.
See rest of postRubyFringe: Day 0
Friday, July 18, 2008
We drove up from Albany Thursday and had a pretty good drive: a little longer than I would have wanted, but interesting once we crossed the border. The entire cultural milieu is different enough to make us feel that we are in another country, but similar enough to jar when faced with ads for American big box stores and chains. The Canadians put up some helpful signs to assist Americans with the traumatic adjustment to the metric system. Don’t want anyone driving 100 MPH when the speed limit is only 100 KPH!
See rest of postTrying out heroku.com, RoR hosting and through the web app creation.
Monday, May 26, 2008
I got an invite to the Heroku beta, and it looks pretty neat.
See rest of postRefactoring and DRY
Thursday, May 01, 2008
I have been at work refactoring code and striving to DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself). I took duplicate code out of the home page and the all posts page and turned it into a partial to view the Post teasers. For some reason I have in the past fallen in love with the each method, so tended to write:
New pages, More tasks
Saturday, April 26, 2008
I’ve done a bit more work on the site itself, learning more about Rake
than I wanted to know. Did you know Rake takes arguments now?
Added Posts to home page as entries stored in a database
Thursday, April 24, 2008
I have moved forward a bit, by adding Posts as a RoR Model, stored on a
database. No maintenance pages yet, but I am using the RedCloth gem to
render content stored as markup into HTML.
Converted to Ruby on Rails at Bluehost
Monday, April 21, 2008
Well, I got the site converted to Ruby on Rails. Nothing elaborate, I’m just
serving up static pages right now, dynamically building the navigation links
based on what page templates exist. I realize that there are a number of
RoR CMS setups available, but I wanted to build this on my own as a learning
exercise. Perhaps comments next?