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Astricon 2008, Hope to See You There!
Astricon 2008 is coming up in a couple of months. I have been to every Astricon in the United States and I always have an amazing time. I spend so much time deep in the trenches of the code that it is really nice to get out and meet people that make good [...]
Asterisk 1.4.21.2 and 1.2.30 Released
The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk versions 1.4.21.2 and 1.2.30.
Both of these releases include fixes for two security issues. Both of these issues affect users of the IAX2 channel driver. For more details on these
OSCON 2008, Mark Spencer's session on Thursday
Every year, O'Reilly hosts an open-source conference in Porland, OR, USA, in July. If anyone interested is at the conference, I'll be at Mark Spencer's talk on Thursday at 1:45pm. Stop by and say hello -- I'll be wearing the conference badge with my name on it. I'm always delighted to meet other like-minded Asterisk and Asterisk-Java users.
Announcing AstriDevCon 2008!
On September 26-28 in Glendale, Arizona, a group of Asterisk developers will be getting together for three days of hacking, coding, testing, designing and otherwise beating on the Asterisk code base. The event will be hosted at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa immediately following AstriCon 2008 and will be low-key and open only to [...]
Whitepaper: High Quality Analog Interface Cards for Use with Asterisk
I just came across a whitepaper on analog interface cards via the Digium twitter feed. This paper compares performance of analog cards from Digium, Sangoma, and Rhino.
Check out the promotion where you can get $100 off your purchase.
Here is the whitepaper.
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Working at Digium is so random sometimes. This morning, an entire pallet of Dr. Pepper arrived for Kevin P. Fleming, my boss, and the Director of Software Technologies. This pallet held 42 cases of 24 20 oz. bottles each. That’s 1008 20 oz. bottles of Dr. Pepper. Furthermore, this arrived with [...]
Speeding up Asterisk with the Hoard Memory Allocator
A little over a year I ago, I made a post to the Asterisk-dev mailing list looking for someone to do some load testing with the Hoard Memory Allocator.
Chris Tooley just recently gave it a test run and saw a boost of about 10% in the number of call setups per second that [...]
Asterisk 1.4.21.1 Released
The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk version 1.4.21.1.
This includes a critical bug fix for 1.4.21. All users that experienced lockups when upgrading to 1.4.21 should have their issues resolved with this update.
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How-to: Write an Asterisk Module, Part 3
Greetings fellow developers!
This is part 3 of a series on implementing the basic interfaces to provide features to Asterisk.
Part 1 - Basic Module Structure
Part 2 - CDR Handling Interface
In this section, you will see how to
How-to: Write an Asterisk Module, Part 2
In part 1, I explained the “Hello World” of Asterisk modules. It implemented just enough to properly compile, get loaded into Asterisk, and print something to the Asterisk log when the module was loaded and unloaded. Now, it’s time to start