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Back in September, I saw a random post on Twitter from the team at System76 about a “superfan contest.” The goal was to build something awesome using open source tools and tell the world about it. The announcement video was pretty inspiring, too. Superfan is taking off! Now until October 4th, we're looking to recruit
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How do you keep your coding skills fresh when you’re no longer coding on a daily basis?
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WordPress’ implementation of nonces was one of my first encounters with cryptographic protections in software development. It’s too bad WordPress nonces aren’t really nonces in the first place …
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Over the weekend, I encountered a fully-automated phone system similar to the virtual voicemail assistant we’re building through the RingCentral tutorials. I wanted to share my experience so you too can see how powerful such a system can be.
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We want to send a text message to a manager whenever a voice message is received by our system. In this walkthrough, we do exactly that!
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Today we learn how to automatically transcribe incoming audio messages into text using Rev.ai. This will allow us to leverage text-based categorization and sentiment analysis tools!
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This article is part one in a month-long series aimed at learning and exercising the RingCentral APIs in Python as part of their new Game Changers challenge. Feel free to follow along, leave a comment, or even participate in the challenge yourself! The second component we need to start setting up for our virtual voicemail
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Today we begin setting things up to work through the Virtual Voicemail Assistant tutorials published by RingCentral.
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I’m learning the RingCentral APIs as part of their Game Changers challenge. My goal is to blog my way through the challenge and their APIs, working to automate my on-the-side security consulting business one step at a time. This means new content from me every day in October 2019. Stay tuned for more!
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Anyone who knows me in the development community knows how much of a fan I am of efficient APIs. I’ve built payments systems with Stripe. I’ve built bots with Twitter. I’ve built a phone routing system with Twilio. It’s this last experience that’s helped shape my own understand of and affinity for APIs, and I’ve