Voxeo Developers Corner

Time to clear my bookmarks out. Here’s some stuff you might enjoy.

• Mark Headd has been playing with CouchDB shows how to install it and use it with Tropo. Mark’s detailed instructions on installing CouchDB should be able to help you quickly get this up and running. Not familiar with CouchDB? It’s a database that is accessed over RESTful HTTP and stores its data as JSON.
• Mark also wrote up how to use user agent sniffing to deploy both text and voice apps on Prophecy showing VoiceXML developers how to easily add SMS and IM to their applications.
• Thanks to Silicon Valet, you can manage your Google Calendar from your phone, powered by Tropo. Hear your appointments read to you and create voice notes for later. The creator, Ted Gilchrist is also working on Talk-o-Gram, a platform for exchanging short voice notes with your Gmail contacts.
• Dominique Boucher looks at the rise of API-oriented voice services (including Tropo) in Back to Basics
• Ian Mercer has created the ultimate home automation platform. Detects when someone’s in a part of the house and appropriately adjusts lighting, heat, and more. A web-based management console shows a log of the house activities and allows you to manage the house from your browser. You have to watch the demo to believe it (it uses Silverlight and takes a while to load, but it’s worth the wait.) But what if he forgets to turn off the oven when he leaves the house? He can call it and turn it off. Every appliance is connected to the phone.
• Aslam Bari created the SalesForce Pinger to allow your application to send instant messages to your SalesForce users when certain events are triggered. Alert everyone that a sale just closed or that there’s a new lead available. Install the Pinger package from SalesForce and then add some simple code to your triggers. BotService.sendMessage('We won this opportunity');

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1. How to call your VoiceXML, CCXML or CallXML app directly from Skype

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