I have a lot to tell you about the API for our live captioning platform, called Recapd. The Recapd API is actually two APIs – a Server API and a Client API. The Client API is what I want to tell you about today. This week we’re making a BIG update available.

So you’ve heard about this Recapd application by now, right? If not, Recapd is one of the industry leading real-time caption delivery services. What you probably didn’t know is what lies beneath this powerful application. Since its inception, we’ve been growing the API base so other developers can dynamically manipulate the embedded widget, and also, gather information about an event from our servers. Guess what? The wait is over!

When I was conceptualizing how FW Toolkit (FWTK) would function, I envisioned a library robust, powerful, agile, but really easy to incorporate into anyone of our projects. Although, the library did exactly as intended, a component was left out due to my own skepticism. FWTK, as a library, comes equipped with an arsenal of tools created by our developers, but the few external libraries we depended on, needed to be loaded separately before they were accessible (Errrr). I wasn’t pleased by this process, but the overall library was a success so I was content.

We rolled out a project last week that we’ve been working on for two years – SyncWords. SyncWords automates captioning when you provide media and a transcript, and does it with great precision and style, and puts users in control.

Over the past few months, the Recap’d team has been extremely busy updating and adding core components for the service. The recent updates make the service even better for our clients! Many of the updates are “under the hood,” which our clients do not have knowledge of, until now.

We recently doled out a really cool addition to Recapd that allows the intake, and storage of caption feeds continuously, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. This feature answers a huge demand from our broadcast clients to archive, retrieve and search through all their countless hours of captions in one central location, and at the same time meet compliance with the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010.

Over the last several months, LinkedIn has gotten very good – I’d say scary good – at recommending “People You May Know”. It regularly pulls up names and faces of people whom I last spoke to 5 or 10 years ago, and even further into the past. Some pop out – it’s found an old friend or co-worker.

The new and improved Recap’d manual will benefit Recap’d users and NCI’s clients now that any questions about Recap’d a user might ask, have been addressed and answered with clear concise step-by-step directions.

At Frameweld, we take testing seriously, (just ask anyone who attended our last three-hour meeting on the subject!), and utilize the best collaboration tools to improve the quality and efficiency of our work.

Working with Subversion has always been something of interest since I arrived at Frameweld. Using it effectively can avoid unnecessary code conflicts, and result in a smooth cutover and update of web applications.