Eric Mann's Blog

  • RingCentral Game Changers: Transcription with Rev.ai

    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!

  • RingCentral Game Changers: MonkeyLearn

    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 […]

  • RingCentral Game Changers: Getting Started

    Today we begin setting things up to work through the Virtual Voicemail Assistant tutorials published by RingCentral.

  • Changing the Game

    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!

  • Leveling up with the RingCentral API

    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 […]

  • Developer Evangelism

    I absolutely love attending tech conferences. They’re great opportunities to reach out to friends in the community, make new connections, and catch the leading edge of what’s going on with the technology I use. Over the past several years, I’ve attended several conferences and met hundreds of people. My favorites, though, are the tech representatives […]

  • Context Managers in PHP

    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 from and leverage.

  • Release Freeze is Coming

    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.

  • I Won’t be at ZendCon

    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.

  • Mastodon: Social Media Made Social

    March 23, 2008 was the day my friend Sean introduced me to Twitter. It was a foreign concept to me. A website that would forward text messages from you to a group of friends – and forward any messages they sent back to you. I was hooked. Sean had called the system “crack” and, honestly, […]