John Gruber has found a javascript library for iPhone webApps, from nobody other than Apple itself. This interesting library, called PastryKit, seems to have been pretty much undiscovered since google does not have much on it. In likes of others, Apple’s javascript library provides support for that app native-feel. (That is the main objective anyway; some look & feel emulators are pretty “good”, while others get stuck in the past).

We’ve received a number of requests for an Amazon EC2 AMI built based on the Asterisk in a cloud tutorial, so we built one.

Open source Asterisk PBX running on your corner of the Amazon cloud. Asterisk 1.6.0.5 with a VoIP optimized kernel timer.

Public AMIs to use as base:
( Images with strike through them are no longer recommended. Their are fine for experimenting and testing, but should not be used for permanent “live” servers )

I have recently had reason to convert an Access MDB file to CSV for use in a mysql database. I don't like the idea of an Access database on a production server and Microsoft has been agreeing since 1999.

As it turns out it is actually very easy, there is GPL software available for the job at http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/. If you are using Ubuntu or Debian you can use apt-get install the mdbtools package

CallWeaver is a community-driven, vendor-independent, cross-platform, open source, PBX software project (formerly known as OpenPBX.org). It was originally derived from Asterisk. Now it supports analog and digital PSTN telephony, multi-protocol voice over IP telephony, fax, software-fax, T.38 fax over IP and many telephony applications such as IVR, conferencing and callcenter queue management.