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Comment on Update: Asterisk TFoT v3 Progressing Nicely by Dandan

Dandan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:43:21 +0000

Awesome! Those are the topics I/we battle in the filed every day and a good book on the topic is always appreciated! As to the high availability – I meant something like heartbeat/having two Asterisk system in hot-standby mode and such… There are implementations out there, when Managers are asking “what if” questions and are panicky about their phone infostructure going down… Life…

As to the OpenSIPS/SER that can be an idea for a NEW book.

Comment on Why NDAs are Useless by Leif Madsen

Leif Madsen — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:30:56 +0000

Comment on Update: Asterisk TFoT v3 Progressing Nicely by Leif Madsen

Leif Madsen — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:30:33 +0000

There was some consideration on doing that (the OpenSIPS integration documentation), however, since none of the current authors have a lot of experience in implementing OpenSIPS (we’ve done implementations with it, but were not the ones creating the routing instructions), we’ve thus far decided we won’t be incorporating OpenSIPS.

Additionally, this is a book about Asterisk implementations, and not a book about OpenSIPS + Asterisk integrations, which really, is an entirely separate topic.

We do have the intention of more heavily covering real-time Asterisk, ODBC integration, clustering, and high-availability (whatever that means!), so most of your suggestions are already being considered and have found their way into the layout.

Comment on Update: Asterisk TFoT v3 Progressing Nicely by Dandan

Dandan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:19:45 +0000

I am hoping you will include Real Time Asterisk, ODBC, clustering, high availability and integration with OpenSER, for example, and using Asterisk as content provider and leaving OpenSER to do call routing. That would be awesome!

Comment on Starting work on Asterisk: TFoT 3rd edition by Dandan

Dandan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:04:28 +0000

I would like to have a whole section on Real Time Asterisk rewritten, expanded, drop postgres, expand ODBC, bring it up to date. Also, I would like to see at least some focus on external tools integration (receptionist, jabber, unified messaging) and video conferencing. Otherwise, the book is awesome! [d]

Comment on Why NDAs are Useless by Jim Van Meggelen

Jim Van Meggelen — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:55:04 +0000

I always check an NDA to ensure that previously known information is out of the scope of the NDA.

I can’t think of a single case where, after signing an NDA, the idea presented was something that was actually new to me. It’s all been stuff I’ve heard before, or thought of myself, rendering the NDA essentially irrelevant.

As with you, I sign them as an act of good faith, a formal confirmation that I will respect my client’s privacy. For me, whether I sign or not, I treat every client as if I had signed an NDA with them.

Comment on Why NDAs are Useless by Leif Madsen

Leif Madsen — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:15:10 +0000

I like it!

Comment on Why NDAs are Useless by Fred Posner

Fred Posner — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:23:12 +0000

Maybe instead we can all just sign PDSM’s. (Please don’t screw me)

Comment on Importing Master.csv into MySQL CDR table by Leif Madsen

Leif Madsen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:38:59 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

Comment on Cisco VPN Client on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 by Leif Madsen

Leif Madsen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:38:34 +0000

Ya I just noticed that the other day, although I haven’t had a chance to try it yet. Thanks for the info!