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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This Voxeo podcast can be found on the web at http://blogs.voxeo.com/ett. If you have comments or feedback about this show, you can either leave comments here on the show blog site or email Dan York.
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.
The slides that go along with this presentation are embedded below the video.
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.
You can download or play the podcast here (in Quicktime):
This Voxeo podcast can be found on the web at http://blogs.voxeo.com/ett. If you have comments or feedback about this show, you can either leave comments here on the show blog site or email Dan York.
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.
You can download or play the podcast here (in Quicktime):
Emerging Tech Talk #025 - Learning Git, Part 2 - Getting Started with Git [9:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Note that viewing in Quicktime will give you the highest quality (and may allow you to actually read the demo).
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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This Voxeo podcast can be found on the web at http://blogs.voxeo.com/ett. If you have comments or feedback about this show, you can either leave comments here on the show blog site or email Dan York.
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.
You can download or play the podcast here:
Emerging Tech Talk #024 - Learning Git, Part 1 - Intro to Version Control Systems [9:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
This Voxeo podcast can be found on the web at http://blogs.voxeo.com/ett. If you have comments or feedback about this show, you can either leave comments here on the show blog site or email Dan York.
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