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Asterisk: The Definitive Guide 4th Edition goes to print 16 May 2013 | 06:31 pm

Howdy folks, Sorry for the lack of updates lately. I’ve recently (December 2012) started at Thinking Phone Networks as the Lead UC Systems Engineer, and we’ve been incredibly busy there. In addition, ...

Brother printer doesn’t print in Fedora 17 25 Nov 2012 | 03:06 am

Tip: If your Brother printer won’t print after installing the drivers, install glibc.i686 Today ran into an issue with my new Brother MFC-7460DN (which is a really nice laser printer with auto-feed sc...

Digium D40 and D70 Phone Unboxing 12 Oct 2012 | 01:43 am

Today I received a couple of phones from Digium; the D40 and D70. I’ll be using these phones for testing and documentation in the 4th edition of Asterisk: The Definitive Guide (which Jim Van Meggelen,...

Selecting Chef Servers With Environment Variables 22 Aug 2012 | 11:49 pm

Today I got playing around with dynamically selecting different chef servers in preparation for migrating some of our nodes away from our chef-dev server to our chef-live server (which I’m currently i...

CentOS 5.8 On AWS EC2 With Xen Kernel (PVGRUB) 22 Aug 2012 | 07:10 pm

At CoreDial we’ve been using a lot of AWS EC2 lately for building sandbox infrastructure for testing. Part of the infrastructure is a voice platform utilizing Asterisk 1.4 and 1.8, and those voice pla...

Assign unique hostname to dhcp client with dnsmasq 24 Jul 2012 | 03:14 am

Today I’ve been getting our lab environment setup with vagrant to auto-provision our lab servers with chef server in order to allow the development team to quickly and easily turn up and tear down web...

bash creating files named ’1′ everywhere! 19 Jul 2012 | 11:03 pm

So I ran into something kind of stupid today Adding a little note for anyone who might run into a similar instance. I have some ssh-add stuff that gets run in my .bashrc file, but when I was outputtin...

Integration Testing Using Jenkins (Part 1) 26 Jun 2012 | 08:51 pm

So for the last week or so, I’ve been tasked at CoreDial with adding our own set of integration testing now that we’re moving to a more formal deployment method using chef. After much pestering of que...

rpmlint non-utf8-spec-file error 24 Feb 2012 | 08:43 am

I’ve been doing a bunch of work with RPMs lately, and while running rpmlint against a spec file I was modifying, I received this error: After Googling, I ran into a way of finding the non-compliant ch...

Converting multiple exten => lines to using same => in Asterisk dialplan 17 Jan 2012 | 03:28 am

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: into using the same => prefix: In order to do th...

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