Converting multiple exten => lines to using same => in Asterisk dialplan
Last week I wanted to start changing some 1.4 based Asterisk dialplan to a 1.8 based Asterisk system, and in that process wanted to convert lines like:
exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,1,NoOp()
exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,2,GotoIf($[...]?reject,1)
exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,3,Dial(SIP/foo/${EXTEN})
...
into using the same => prefix:
exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,1,NoOp()
same => n,GotoIf($[...]?reject,1)
same => n,Dial(SIP/foo/${EXTEN})
In order to do that, Mike King helped me out with the following regular expressing which I used in vim:
%s/exten\s*=>\s*[^,]\+,\s*[n2-9]/ same => n/g
Commodore 64 Turns 30 This Year
Having found an article about the Commodore 64 turning 30 this year, I reflected back in a comment on that page about what it is like to be only 1 year older than the Commodore 64, a computer which spiked my interest in technology away from a games system to something much more. The original article is available at http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/commodor-64-30-year
“I just turned 31 a couple of days ago on January 7th, and when I was in grade 2 (about 8-9 years old I guess) I started getting interested in the Commodore 64s we had at our school that were plentiful, but rarely used. I remember the first thing the teacher taught me; $p$g
The Commodore 64 replaced my interest with Nintendo (which I still have) to a greater interest that shaped me and caused me to grow technologically. This grew into the Packard Bell 486/25 my parents bought where I played flight simulator (after my Dad purchased more RAM for the computer at $100 a MB), and ran a BBS (the first month I played around with the 2400 baud modem calling Las Vegas BBS numbers that a friends father gave me; I lived in Sarnia, ON, Canada which is north-east of Detroit), and eventually ran my own BBS. Running a BBS gave me the sense of community that I possess and the love of telecommunications that is my career to this day.
So thank you Commodore for your C64 which has allowed me to carve out my career and greatly influenced who I am; and not just professionally.”
Now working with CoreDial
As of January 3rd, I’m now working with the CoreDial team full time. I’ve worked with them as a consultant on their infrastructure over the last few years but now will be spending significantly more time working with the engineering team 
From the announcement,
“CoreDial is pleased to announce the addition of Leif Madsen to the CoreDial team,” said Alan Rihm, CEO at CoreDial. “Leif is a well known Asterisk consultant who specializes in distributed telephony deployments and database integration. In addition, Leif is co-author of several O’Reilly published books on Asterisk, including Asterisk: The Definitive Guide (3rd edition). We’re pleased to be adding Leif to our team, and look forward to the exciting opportunity to work together.”
The entire announcement can be found at http://coredial.com/asterisk-consultant-leif-madsen-joins-coredial-team/
I’m really excited to be working with these guys, and to see what we’ll develop over the coming months! I’ll keep you informed here on my blog, and will continue to post Asterisk tidbits and snippets as I go.
Cooking With Asterisk (Video)
And I found the Cooking With Asterisk presentation as well! Apologies for the low quality on the video (as this one has a lot more text than the Distributed Call Centre video), but you can follow along with the presentation on your screen as available on my website at:
http://leifmadsen.com/sites/default/files/AstriCon%202011%20-%20Cooking%20With%20Asterisk.pdf
The video presentation is available here:
http://www.tmcnet.com/tmc/videos/default.aspx?vid=5741&title=Cooking+with+Asterisk#
Asterisk Powered Distributed Call Centres (Video)
Looks like TMC has posted my presentation from AstriCon 2011! You can see the presentation in its entirety over here:
And the presentation along with the demo configuration files is available on my website at:
