Apache vs. Lighttpd (AKA: Lighty)
For a while now I’ve been toying around with the idea of utilizing Lighttpd for various web based applications. One of these application is my Automatic Dialer framework, also known as the GTD-API. The main issue with the GTD-API (besides that it is highly reliant on a MySQL database), is the fact that all requests […]
We are to blame…
Lately I’ve come to the realization, that we are to blame for our own inability to promote Open Source and the adaptation of Open Source proficiency. Being an Open Source evangelist and consultant, this is very weird to be said by one like myself, however, this is my realization – and I will explain. In […]
Say No To TrixBox Campaign – Update
As some of you noticed, I’ve started a “Say No To TrixBox” campaign. In order toPL go about and monitor the usage of the banner, and it’s deployment across the net, I’ve installed an OpenX ad server to support the campaign. I guess that I didn’t realize what the little campaign would do! Current statistics […]
Predictive dialers enhance contact center performance – truth or myth?
Since I’ve released my dialer framework demo about 2 months ago, I’ve been swamped with many requests from various contact centers around the world – to utilize my dialer framework for the development of a custom made predictive dialer. For those of you who are not in the know, a predictive dialer is a tool […]
Asterisk Bootcamp Training Israel
As some of you may already know, I’ve been chosen by Digium to perform Asterisk training services here in Israel. For me, as a long time Asterisk community member, it is fairly a big thing, even bigger than the book I’ve written – as it incorporates two of the things I really like – teaching […]
Book alert, Book alert – Highly self promoting here
Ok, I always wanted to write a book – and I finally did it. Thanks to Schuyler Deerman at Digium, who had connected me with Packt Publishing, I’ve written and AsteriskNOW book. My book is basically a quick-start cook-book to get up and running really fast with AsteriskNOW. If you want to build your own […]
The world’s fastest Asterisk based Dialer
As most of you already know, I’m heavily involved within the Asterisk Open PBX project. Over the course of the past 5 years of my dealing with Asterisk, Asterisk had always suffered a serious flaw, and that is, a single-threaded Manager interface – which usually led to serious dead-locks when writing a multi-threaded server that […]
Packages are a wonderful thing…
Ever used an RPM package? sure you have – it’s that little thing that makes life all so easy when installing anything on a RedHat/Suse based system. RPM packages can make your life really simple and fast, as long as you stick to the main track of using the stock RPM packages – however, what […]
DTMF – Damned Tone Maker Fuckedup
To those of you familiar with the SIP signalling protocol or any other VoIP protocol for all that matter, you are most probably familiar with the issue of traversing DTMF (Dual Tone Multi Frequency) tones correctly over a VoIP link. The main issue is that there is no one standard for doing this. While in […]