technology

MAMP and PDFlib

Posted Wed, 03/12/2008 - 14:35 by Tom Friedhof

I mainly use MAMP when developing web applications locally. MAMP is great because you can easily switch from PHP4 to PHP5, it's very easy to configure, and everything is built into one package.  However I do have a second development environment setup on my machine.  I also use the package that Marc Liyanage made available, but I only use this environment if I am dealing with PDFlib, because PDFlib does not work with MAMP.  It's lame having projects in two different development environments depending on if I need PDF support.

Got a Soekris 4801

Posted Thu, 11/29/2007 - 08:05 by Tom Friedhof

I've been keeping my eye on embedded computers lately, particularly the Soekris 4801.  Well, I finally bought one.  These little computers are really cool.  You can install Linux or BSD on these little devices and pretty much have them do whatever you want.  I didn't get a hard drive with mine, I'm going to use an old 512 MB Compact Flash card to hold the OS, which will be more than enough room for what I'll be using it for.

You can use these embedded systems for a variety of things, but I am going to install m0n0wall on this device. As it says on the m0n0wall web site:

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: