Open Source business sustainability
While Open Source projects around the world gather up the troops and become recognized for what they are: highly polished, highly effective, extremely economical products – the situation in Israel is fairly different. We’ve all heard about companies like Zimbra (recently acquired by Yahoo), MySQL (recently acquired by SUN) and others, which had struck BIG […]
Psyched and ecstatic at the same time – Asterisk Bootcamp Israel
OK, I’m fairly psyched out at this point, actually, I would say that I’m ecstatic. The first ever Asterisk Bootcamp training will be taking place on the 25th of May, in Ramat-Gan, and I’m the trainer 🙂 If you are not from Israel, you may regard this as: “What’s so special? Asterisk bootcamps are all […]
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 powers Israel’s 60th independance day information service
Ok, the service is up and running, so now I can show it off. Israel’s 60th independance day parties information service is running of an Asterisk servers – how do I know that, you ask? simple, it’s my Asterisk server! Well, actually, the service is being run by BeLowCall, an IVR and telecom services company, […]
The unbearable manner of the “me too” syndrome
There is nothing more annoying than the “me too” syndrome – the ever annoying human behavior of seeing something good and copying it – while doing a lousy job at it. So, what am I ranting about this time? I’m ranting about the lousy job companies like Sangoma, Yeaster, Varion, PhonicEQ and other Digium would-be […]
I don’t feel right charging for 15 minutes
Ok, I’m a consultant and developer, but asking somebody to pay me for 15 minutes worth of work – I feel like a total heel. I’m a member of this Freelancers website called oDesk. Every once in a while I get a notification from oDesk, asking me to participate in an interview – which I […]
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 […]
Open Source and Open Crooks
As an Open Source consultant and evangelist, I’m sometimes amazed at the sheer GPL violations companies do, in the persuit of an exit. First of all, let us understand that general aspects of utilizing a GPL product: You are FREE to download, use and modify any given source code. In case you re-distribute your modified […]
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 […]