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New at Tropo: SSL and REST APIs for provisioning & remote control

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I've been getting familiar with Tropo lately and they are really pretty cool. Their support is generally good and their docs are solid. Their biggest shortcoming was the lack of this new event API (or something filling the same role) and I'm very happy that it's so close to release.

It's released now -- our new code always goes to the servers hosting free developer apps first, then a week or two later gets pushed to the production servers.

We use the free developer servers as sort of a beta environment. Once code passes QA and all our testing, we let it run there for a while to make sure we didn't miss any edge cases.

Looks interesting. Slightly off topic, but what are the chances of getting a Montana (406 area code) phone number? Or, alternatively, is there a method of forwarding an existing phone number to Tropo?

We can get most area codes in the US. If you don't see what you're looking for in the UI, send a message to support@tropo.com with a request -- we only manually provision numbers for production applications, so use one of the existing numbers for development and testing, then add a local number for production.

We can port existing numbers to Tropo for you if you want. Just let us know.

I've been able to make apps with Tropo really quickly, and it's been invaluable to my team and I as we tackle difficult hackathons, client projects and our main software project, Geoloqi. It integrates well with everything out there, and the support is incredibly strong.

The Tropo IRC channel is always available with more than a few Tropo representatives there. There have been multiple occasions where our requests have resulted in immediate action and changes to Tropo.

They've make awesome power available to their users, and they're really making strides into increased documentation and usability every day. It's fun to watch them evolve.

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