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Chris Matthieu interviews John Higgins from Voxeo Labs and Ben Klang from Verendus about Adhearsion and AdhearsionConf. Adhearsion is the first fully-featured open source Ruby framework for Asterisk and an easy way to write voice-enabled applications. In the age of the social web, what other technologies are more social than voice? Adhearsion empowers your code to handle and route inbound and outbound phone, VoIP, and Skype calls automatically, just like it handles normal web traffic. John is coordinating the 2010 AdhearsionConf scheduled for August 14th and 15th in San Francisco, CA. More information can be found at http://adhearsionconf.eventbrite.com/ Ben is one of the core developers of the Adhearsion project. He talks about the framework, deployments, features included in the recent gem release and new enhancements in the pipeline. The video to the Bloc Jam Mutek project discussed on the show can be found at http://vimeo.com/12416115 If you haven't tried out Adhearsion by now, you really should! Check it out at http://adhearsion.com

Chris Matthieu introduces his new cloud-based telecom start-up written in Ruby on Rails called Teleku.com! Teleku is a new cloud-based telecom service that allows Web developers to build and host phone applications that answer inbound calls and initiate outbound calls, interact with Web applications, and send/receive SMS text messages! Using simple XML and JSON responses in your HTTP Web pages, you can deliver sophisticated interactive voice response (IVR) telephony applications in as little as 5 minutes! The Teleku platform runs phone applications written in PhoneML®, Twilio’s® TwiML®, and traditional VoiceXML. You can even mix XML libraries on a Web service call-by-call basis and chain voice applets together using one or all of the three libraries. Teleku natively uses Phone Markup Language (PhoneML) to build powerful phone applications quickly and easily. PhoneML can be viewed as a modern and more simple approach to building XML/JSON-based telephony applications. PhoneML is a set of RESTful XML/JSON commands that allow developers to build simple yet sophisticated phone applications using any Web programming language. We mask the complexities of building a traditional voice application by providing you with a easy Web Service API that handles the complex telco services and even Speech Recognition (ASR) grammar development. Teleku’s API does not require you to purchase an SDK or download software but rather provides free RESTful Web Services that allow your Web applications to receive telephone, Skype, and SIP calls to interact with callers over the telephone like traditional Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems by playing MP3, WAV, or VOX media files, speaking text-to-speech (TTS) prompts, collecting digits and spoken commands through speech recognition (ASR), recording audio, dialing numbers, transferring calls, etc. Teleku is hosted in the cloud (specifically Amazon’s EC2 platform) allowing us to scale your phone application from one to thousands of simultaneous calls in the blink of an eye! Never has building an Interactive Voice Response (IVR/VRU) system been so simple, affordable, and powerful! “We are excited to see what developers will build with this kind of new technology,” says its founder, Chris Matthieu. This is definitely next generation telecom! Cloud-based computing allows us to scale on demand and it allows you to pay for only what you need, when you need it. We are issuing Private Beta invitation codes a few at a time to ensure that our services are meeting your expectations. Please follow Teleku on Twitter and @ reply us if you are interested in giving your app a ring!

Above is a link to our latest podcast, led by the one-and-only Chris Matthieu. You can grab this one as a direct download, though bear in mind streaming a raw mp3 without a decent broadband connection may take some time, so always give it time to buffer, as it's a shame to have it stop and start throughout playback. That being said, we think it's great to be able to offer visitors our audio ramblings on the site directly - sometimes, downloading a large mp3 isn't what you'd like on a Friday night after work is done for the week. So kick back, relax, hit stream, and enjoy. More details on the podcast are below! @ChrisMatthieu interviews Oren @Teich of Heroku about their new add-on services that just launched on October 29th. These services are like an appstore for deployment options. Check out this fun interview to learn more about super simple cloud deployments!

Roundtable discussion on Ruby IDEs and text editors. Participants: Marc Chung, Preston Lee, Saul Mora, Benjamin Smith. (OpenRain web development ninjas.) Google Group Alternate AAC Version

Chris Matthieu and Saul Mora recap the final day of Railsconf 2009.

Chris Matthieu and Saul Mora recap day 2 of Railsconf 2009. On location.

The Heroku founders were interviewed at Railsconf 2009. We discuss their platform, niche, and business including how they came up with their name. This is probably one of our best interviews yet - hope we are getting the hang of it!

Chris Matthieu and Saul Mora recap day 1 of Railsconf 2009. DHH's keynote, tutorial, and sessions recap includes: Sinatra/Jruby on Rails/JQuery Tutorials UI Fundamentals Scaling Rails by Phusion Ruby Heroes Awards 2009 Rails Engine BlueRidge Hope you enjoy it!

Roundtable discussion on 3D GUI development with ruby-processing; Heroku overview and Q&A; AWS S3 analytics. Participants: Marc Chung, Preston Lee, Saul Mora, remi Taylor. (OpenRain Ruby development ninjas.) Google Group Alternate AAC Version

Interview with University of Phoenix Senior Software Engineer Aaron K. Hawkins. Enhanced AAC Version

Sinatra webapps and Ruby micro-frameworks. Ruby conference recommendations. Safari 4 Beta, HTML 5 and CSS 3. Participants: Marc Chung, Ben Smith, remi Taylor, Saul Mora, and Preston Lee. (OpenRain Ruby Ninjas) Enhanced AAC Version Google Group

The first in a new series of "enterprise" Ruby developer interviews. Host: Preston Lee, OpenRain Software Guest: Scott Barber, iMemories Guest: Tomasz Stechly, "Large International Bank" Production: 2009.02.25.13.30 Release: 2009.02.27.18.00 Runtime: 21:50.

Roundtable discussion on Ruby web application scalability and source control trends in the Ruby community. Participants: Preston Lee, remi Taylor, Saul Mora. Episodes are now in high-quality stereo and alternatively available in enhanced AAC with as-they-happen links. http://rubyology.s3.amazonaws.com/rubyology-74-high.m4a Episodes download speeds should now be greatly improved. Show notes: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyology/browse_frm/thread/68be10d1b4478281

The cool Ruby hackers from OpenRain (http://OpenRain.com) forwarded us a recording from their recent Ruby developer roundtable. If you are interested Javascript and Rails, you'll love this episode! UPDATE: You can now contribute to the Rubyology podcast by participating in supplementary discussion, sharing relevant links, giving show feedback and suggesting Ruby-related topics for future episodes by joining the new Rubyology Google Group.

David Koontz gave an awesome presentation at this week's Phoenix Ruby User Group meeting. The topic was lessons learned on building a Ruby-based, cross-platform, thick-client application - JotBot. This time keeping application truly looks like a native Mac application. Check it out at http://www.getjotbot.com/