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Polycom 501 Contact Directory

Posted Thu, 11/15/2007 - 10:27 by Tom Friedhof

I finally found the format of the directory.xml file for my Polycom 501 IP phone after searching the web for about a half hour looking for it. Where better place to keep the format than in the Polycom Admin Guide.  I found an entry on voip-info.org, but it didn't mention all the XML elements I could use. So being the curious guy that I am, I had to know all the options available to me.

I'm reposting the doc page here so google can index it, and if I forget and need a reminder of what the XML elements are Google might lead me back here.

 

Trixbox goes Drupal, so does 43folders

Posted Sat, 09/22/2007 - 08:31 by Tom Friedhof

I was chatting with Crystal Williams yesterday, the amazing organizer that put together the recent DrupalCampLA, and she mentioned the company she works for just launched the new Trixbox commercial site with Drupal. It's a very clean design and implementation of Drupal.


Also, Merlin Mann, just released the new 43folders site on Drupal. Another great looking theme. He leveraged the RoopleTheme to turn his design into what it is. You can check out all the different RoopleThemes here.  The 43folders web site is a great productivity web site with a big focus on the Getting Things Done principles. 

Drupal Asterisk module

Posted Fri, 09/21/2007 - 12:04 by Tom Friedhof


A couple weeks ago after I upgraded my home office PBX to Trixbox 2.2.4 I did a search on drupal.org to see if there were any modules for Asterisk. Sure enough I found one that had been ported from drupal 4.6 by Chad Phillips, better known as hunmonk in the drupal community.

If you haven't checked out the module, check out his demo site and get in touch with hunmonk for a live demonstration. He showed me some pretty cool features in the demonstration, but the one that sold me was the call bridge. What happens is: