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The Ribbit API, and all the REST libraries, require you to submit phone numbers in RFC3966 format. This requires that the Ribbit US sales number (619) 916-2565 is submitted to the API as tel:16199162565

It's not always straightforward to validate phone numbers easily, ensuring that the country code is included. With the help of Javascript, we can make this a lot easier.

When using the Ribbit REST API there are many actions that can trigger REST events. Whether it is calling into your purpose number, receiving a new voicemail, or connecting another leg to an active call, REST will send an event to a URL you provide, called the Callback URL. Lets take a look at how to set up that Callback URL, and a basic way to inspect the data coming in the Callback Event in PHP.

You may have seen our Google Wave gadget that uses our Javascript library to create an outbound conference call to lots of people in a Google Wave. You really don't need to write a lot code to accomplish this.

Last month at BarCamp San Diego, I demoed an updated version of the Ribbit Chrome extension with some updated features. I took a bit of time cleaning up the code and have put the code on our Github account.

[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.