Rubyology

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 sho