In this episode, host Dan York reviews the book “Pragmatic Guide to Git“, written by Travis Swicegood and published in November 2010 by The Pragmatic Programmers. He explains how the book is structured, how he likes the way it works for reference… and one little nit he has about the formatting.

A long-time fan and user of the git distributed version control system, (and on Github as danyork) Dan previously recorded two other ETT episodes about git:

• Emerging Tech Talk #24 – Learning Git, Part 1 – Intro to Version Control Systems
• Emerging Tech Talk #25 – Learning Git, Part 2 – Getting Started with Git

(And yes, he still needs to finish the part 3 that explains Github.)

Voxeo also makes software available through github.com/voxeo and github.com/tropo

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Why did Voxeo acquire Teleku? What does Teleku do? What happens now? In this episode, host Dan York interviews Teleku founder Chris Matthieu about how Teleku started, what services it provides, and what Chris will be doing now that he is a “Voxeon”. See our news page about the acquisition for more details.

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In this special April 1st edition, host Dan York announces the addition of support for the COBOL language to Voxeo’s Tropo.com voice application platform and explains the rationale behind it. This new COBOL support was announced earlier today in a Tropo blog post.

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Emerging Tech Talk #29 - COBOL Support for Tropo.com [ 3:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Would you like to develop voice applications in programming languages you already know? In this episode, Voxeo CEO Jonathan Taylor speaks from the stage of the Emerging Communication Conference (eComm) 2009 in San Francisco, CA, as he announces the launch of Tropo.com – a new way to create voice applications in programming languages like python, ruby, groovy, JavaScript and PHP.

You can learn how to start developing voice applications at www.tropo.com or read more at blogs.voxeo.com/tropo.

NOTES:

1. The slides that go along with this presentation are embedded below the video.

2. This presentation was also recorded by the eComm conference and will be made available on the eComm blog over the next months. We’ll updated this blog post when that version is available.

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Emerging Tech Talk #026 - Intro to Tropo.com - eComm 2009 [ 7:19 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Building on the intro to version control systems in Emerging Tech Talk #24, in this episode Dan York describes how the Git distributed version control system is different from non-distributed version control systems such as CVS and SVN and then goes on to provide a very basic demonstration of using Git.

There’s obviously far more to using git than can be demonstrated in a short video here, so if you are interested in learning more there are many tutorials and other info available on the Git documentation page.

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Emerging Tech Talk #025 - Learning Git, Part 2 - Getting Started with Git [ 9:46 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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PRODUCTION NOTES: Question for viewers:

• Is the screencast of the terminal shell readable when you viewed the video?

After watching this, I think I needed to zoom in more so that the text was larger. I’m not sure how this would actually look in an iPhone, for instance. (I will look soon.) Something to remember for next time. Anyway, any feedback on how good or poor the viewing was would be appreciated.

And yes, I know the transition from me speaking to the screencast was a bit harsh… still working through some nuances of my tool chain.

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For a variety of reasons that will soon become clear over on our Voxeo Developer’s Corner blog, I (Dan York) want to talk a bit about the Git distributed version control system and how it differs from non-distributed version control systems such as CVS and SVN.

Now wait a minute, you say, you aren’t a programmer, so why should you care?

Well, the reality is that I’ve used version control systems for writing books… developing courseware… for web sites… for configuration files… even for home directories of users. Basically, any time I have had a group of files where I want to track revisions to those files – or have wanted to collaborate with someone else and have a solid history of what changes we each have made. Once you start using a version control system, it is simply amazing the number of uses you have for them (only some of which might actually involve programming).

Anyway, “traditional” version control systems (also sometimes called “source code management” (SCM) systems, although there are nuances in the naming) such as the open source Concurrent Versions System (CVS), Subversion (SVN) and the many commercial equivalents all more or less use the model of having a central server from which users “check out” files and then “check in” (or “commit”) any changes they make back to the central server. In more recent years, distributed version control systems (DVCS) have emerged that fundamentally change the paradigm for how a user interacts with their information. Several new open source DVCS’ have emerged, including darcs, mercurial, bazaar and git. For several reasons, I’m currently working with git, but most of what I cover in this and the next episode are similar across the various DVCS systems.

In this first of three episodes I talk about version control systems in general and the different components that make up such a system. I discuss repositories, working copies as well as concepts such as branching and merging – and then wrap up with a few of the issues associated with traditional systems such as CVS and SVN that git sets out to solve.

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Emerging Tech Talk #024 - Learning Git, Part 1 - Intro to Version Control Systems [ 9:42 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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At ITEXPO East 2009 in Miami, FL, host Dan York interviewed Irv Shapiro, CEO of IfByPhone ( http://www.ifbyphone.com ) about how his service makes it easy for developers to create voice applications. He talks about three application examples and also three magic ingredients, one of which is Asterisk and one of which is Voxeo’s Prophecy. He also invited developers to sign up for a free developer account at http://www.phonemashup.com/

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Emerging Tech Talk #023 - Irv Shapiro of IfByPhone [ 9:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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What are the different types of tools out there for developers of voice/communications applications? What choices do developers have? And where does Voxeo’s recent acquisition of VoiceObjects fit within the range of tools?

In this episode, host Dan York talks about the “three pools of tools” for developers of voice applications and the options that developers have available when considering how to build a voice application.

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Emerging Tech Talk #016 - The Three Pools of Tools for Voice Application Developers [ 10:07 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Now there are certainly other ways to slice up and categorize the tools out there for developers, and if you have your own or disagree with my categorizations, please do feel free to leave a comment here.

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