2019
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RingCentral Game Changers: Automated Messaging
Oct 4
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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RingCentral Game Changers: Transcription with Rev.ai
Oct 3
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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RingCentral Game Changers: MonkeyLearn
Oct 2
Our virtual voicemail assistant needs a brain. Setting up MonkeyLearn’s default classifiers, testing them against posts from this blog, and calling the API from Python for the RingCentral Game Changers challenge.
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RingCentral Game Changers: Getting Started
Oct 1
Today we begin setting things up to work through the Virtual Voicemail Assistant tutorials published by RingCentral.
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Changing the Game
Sept 29
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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Leveling up with the RingCentral API
Sept 21
I built a phone routing system with Twilio, but couldn’t call out from my virtual number without exposing my cell. RingCentral’s Game Changers challenges and its ‘ring out’ API finally solved that.
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Developer Evangelism
Aug 21
My favorite people at tech conferences are the developer evangelists. From TwilioQuest to RingCentral’s Game Changers, they teach the tools, and every company that works with developers needs at least one.
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Context Managers in PHP
Jan 29
These days, I spend far more time writing and reviewing code in Python than I do PHP. It’s been a refreshing change of pace, and it’s fun to learn the different patterns present in various programming languages. One of the nicer patterns in Python is the Context Manager. It’s a pattern that PHP can learn…
2018
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Release Freeze is Coming
Nov 21
I will not ship any WordPress-related code or updates during the month of December. This is so I can take time to focus on family and 2019 planning. I encourage you to do the same.
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I Won’t be at ZendCon
Oct 8
Next week kicks off the latest version of ZendCon in Las Vegas. Though I had, for a time, expected to be there … I won’t be. You should know why.
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System76 Oryx Pro – First Impressions
Jul 12
Here are some photos and first thoughts from my setup experience of the new Oryx Pro by System76 that I purchased a few days ago.