Blogs

[The first in a series of posts on the tools of the Internet.]

Just a couple hours after interacting with our developers at our Spawn 2009 event, I was enroute to Poznan, Poland to lead a session at the RuPy conference. Roughly 36 hours from the end of Spawn, having traveled 24 hours straight through London and Warsaw, weary-eyed and hopped up on caffiene, I hit the stage to present.

[Note: While reading this, it may be helpful to reference the Ribbit REST Device API document at times]

Ribbit's own Crick Waters and Joseph Hofstader, a Microsoft Architect/Evangelist, discuss the integration of Ribbit's Communications toolset with Microsoft's Silverlight technology. This allows web developers and designers the ability to drag and drop controls into their web-enabled applications. In the past, developing applications with calling, messaging, IVR, etc. would require a lot of telephony domain knowledge as well as very expensive equipment.

Ribbit Developers typically create Silverlight applications in one of two ways. The first way is to use our Ribbit for Silverlight controls by adding them into Visual Studio. We have a tutorial of that here. Another way is to use our Ribbit for Silverlight controls in Microsoft's Expression Blend 3.

Later this month, I will be representing Ribbit at BarCamp San Diego.

BarCamp is a set of conferences that rebel against the rigid structure of invite-only conferences and encourage attendee participation.

Recently, we covered the building blocks of building extensions for Chrome. In this post, I show you how to use HTML5 localStorage to store developer credentials securely.

A couple of weeks ago, I previewed a Chrome extension using Ribbit technology to allow a user to make 2-legged call or send text messages. In this post, I'm going to show you some of the code powering the extension and how you would deploy it to the Chrome Extension Gallery.

One of the great things about Ribbit being located in Mountain View (a hop, skip and jump from Google's headquarters) is that you we sometimes learn about things before they get popular.

Software development kit and language support for Microsoft Silverlight gives Microsoft’s global development community easy access to open platform for communications innovation