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 […]
Keeping Fresh
How do you keep your coding skills fresh when you’re no longer coding on a daily basis?
WordPress Nonces: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
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 …
In the Wild: Phone Automation
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.
RingCentral Game Changers: Automated Messaging
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!
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!