Adhearsion

A friend of mine in Barcelona who travels frequently, and runs his own business, recently asked me if he could tie his Tripit location to his business phone routing. Even when he is traveling across the Atlantic, he must be able to provide telephone support to his clients but only based on a reasonable time [...]

Over the last week we have been working to migrate various Adhearsion services to new homes. This could not have come a moment too soon, as during the migration one of the hard drives in our server in Texas gave up the ghost. Of course we used RAID, so we did not miss a beat, [...]

I have been preparing an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with Adhearsion, Asterisk and all of the available components installed and pre-configured to be made public soon. For the AMI I decided to get the Sinatra web app included with the Click To Call component up and running as a daemon. I used a combination of [...]

Now that Skype is coming to the enterprise with Skype for Asterisk and Skype for SIP, they will need to enhance the data available for their calling rates. Enabling Least Cost Routing (LCR) is a must for any VoIP provider to the enterprise. LCR allows a phone system to determine, on a call by call [...]

Last July I spoke at what has become one of the most notorious Ruby conferences ever held: RubyFringe in Toronto. It was widely reported to be an enormous success and, in the punk-rock open-source spirit, RubyFringe did it without any corporate sponsors. Only fun, fringe projects and people allowed. InfoQ, one of my favorite [...]

If there’s even been a pivotal turning point for the Adhearsion project, it’s now. We have several announcements to make all rolled up into this hugely important, albeit intentionally bite-size blog post. Each is extremely exciting and collectively I ... [More] think they show the escalating pace of the Adhearsion space. Meet Jason Goecke Firstly, you may have noticed that [...] [Less]

Chris Matthieu of the Rubyology podcast interviewed me earlier today about Adhearsion. I was actually taking a nap just before he called me so the first few minutes of the podcast are me still waking up. Sorry that it starts out slow. It gets better further into the podcast, I promise. Listen to the [...]

I’ve migrated the hosting of the Adhearsion code base to Github.com, a site I’ve been super excited about and one which will immensely benefit the Adhearsion community. Github is the first site to get Web 2.0 right in the context of software development. If you haven’t heard of it before, you’re lucky you’re reading this [...]

The JAOO conference recently released the following video of Chad Fowler, Marcel Molina Jr. and Glenn Vanderburg answering the question “What is the next killer app for Ruby?” The video starts by them diving into a flattering discussion about ... [More] Adhearsion as a candidate. UPDATE: In response to this video and What We’re Not Admitting about Asterisk, [...] [Less]

It’s time to clear up several restraining misconceptions in the telephony space. These are points I outlined during my presentation at AsteriskTag in Berlin recently, though they bear repeating for everyone’s sake. This post is not the end of the discussion. Please feel free to leave comments on this post and subscribe to my RSS feed. [...]