[ale] Ring, ring, it's your computer calling. Your process has completed.

[Dennis Ruzeski]

I'd be very interested in this! I  recently took a job with a place
that does alot of VOIP stuff and some quick and dirty one-liners that
might help troubleshooting would be a great.

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds cool!
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> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> For the ATT mobile hackathon on the 30th I made a project that uses call
>> management web APIs. (Because it increased the prize pool from $300 to $500.
>> This was a good choice as I ended up winning first prize.)
>>
>> One of the gems was that I learned how to use a simple curl command to
>> call my phone. Now, doing something useful with that call (text to speech,
>> speech to text, or IVR menu tree) gets pretty complex, however making the
>> call can be pretty powerful alone. Let's say you put curl command in a
>> script named "callme". You can then go:
>> rsync /path server:/path || callme
>>
>> Then, if that rsync command that you expected to take 4 hours fails, you
>> get a call and don't lose half your day. Or, you can use a semicolon instead
>> of the double pipe and it calls you no matter what. There will be no one on
>> the other end of the call, but in this most basic form it is still pretty
>> useful.
>>
>> With a little bit more work I ought to be able to make it except an
>> argument that gets passed to the text to speech API. Then you could use it
>> for alerts of a less binary nature:
>> callme "I just met you and this is crazy"
>>
>> (If you get that joke, I hope you have young girls at home.)
>>
>> Would anyone be interested in seeing this? It'll take a little effort to
>> prepare.
>>
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