Text Messaging with VisualWorks

Friday, January 14th, 2005

One very easy way of sending text messages from a VisualWorks application is to simply send email to a provider that forwards the email to your cell phone. See my previous blog for an example of SMTP in VW.
One such provider is Verizon Wireless. Email sent to yourPhoneNumber@vtext.com will get forwarded. Messages are truncated [...]

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Staying ahead of trouble

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

The other day I decided to play with the idea of facilitating the notification of issues back to us. Our users are off-site.. So I decided to hook up to the SMTP capabilities of VW. As a proof of concept, I decided to modify the Notifier so that instead of providing a “copy stack” button [...]

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