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From the BitBucket website we see that Bitbucket is a free code hosting site for the popular Mercurial distributed version control system (DVCS) with over 157,000 users.Why DVCS? It enables more powerful collaboration with your team. Commit locally (whet..
The Asterisk Development Team announces the release of libpri version1.4.12. This release is available for immediate download athttp://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/libpri/The following are some of the issues resolved in this release:* Add c..
Facebook will be launching a new in-browser video chat application.The product has been built on Skype and will include a desktopcomponent. It’s not clear to me whether that means it will just work if auser has Skype already installed on the comput..
The Asterisk open-source IP PBX is popular for several very good reasons, including its low cost,flexibility and powerful feature set. Another factor that draws manybusinesses to Asterisk is the ability to enhance the product with anarray of add-on featu..
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a Microsoft patentapplication that reaches back to December 2009 and describes recordingagents to legally intercept VoIP phone calls. The Legal Interceptpatent application is one of Microsofts more elabor..
Product notification:Skype for Asterisk will not be available for sale or activation after July 26, 2011.Skypefor Asterisk was developed by Digium in cooperation with Skype. Itincludes proprietary software from Skype that allows Asterisk to jointhe Sk..
Fatal Exceptions Neil McAllister discusses the most dangerous programming mistakes, and what can be done to avoid them. Even more than input validation errors, this years list is rife with application security blunders of all kinds. Some of them so..
On a previous opportunity we configured our Asterisk installation to connect with MariaDB (or MySQL) database through ODBC, using unixODBC. Well, this is a sample of the res_odbc.conf and cdr_odbc.conf files that would work just out of the box with t..
1.0 Asterisk + unixODBCHaving almost all of our Asterisk configuration based on our preferred Database Management System is one of the greatest advantages that we have at the moment to deploy a VoIP solution. Now, having the possibility of building ..
If you are using MySQL or MariaDB, and are planning to use ODBC storage for Voicemail, this table schema for voicemessages table could be useful.The storage engine has explicitly been defined as MyISAM. Recent versions of MySQL use InnoDB by defau..