Caledon, Ontario
Asterisk Consultant, Author
Areas of Expertise:
- asterisk
- clustering
- call-centre
- call-center
- dialplan
- queues
- odbc
- func_odbc
- consulting
- speaking
- programming
- writing
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Leif blogs at:
http://leifmadsen.wordpress.com/
Converting multiple exten => lines to using same => in Asterisk dialplan
January 16 2012
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 that, Mike King helped me out with the following regular expressing which I… read moreCommodore 64 Turns 30 This Year
January 09 2012
Having found an article about the Commodore 64 turning 30 this year, I reflected back in a comment on that page about what it is like to be only 1 year older than the Commodore 64, a computer which spiked my interest in technology away from a games system to… read moreCommodore 64 Turns 30 This Year
January 09 2012
Having found an article about the Commodore 64 turning 30 this year, I reflected back in a comment on that page about what it is like to be only 1 year older than the Commodore 64, a computer which spiked my interest in technology away from a games system to… read moreJanuary 04 2012
As of January 3rd, I’m now working with the CoreDial team full time. I’ve worked with them as a consultant on their infrastructure over the last few years but now will be spending significantly more time working with the engineering team From the announcement, “CoreDial is pleased to announce the… read moreDecember 23 2011
And I found the Cooking With Asterisk presentation as well! Apologies for the low quality on the video (as this one has a lot more text than the Distributed Call Centre video), but you can follow along with the presentation on your screen as available on my website at: http://leifmadsen.com/sites/default/files/AstriCon%202011%20-%20Cooking%20With%2 0Asterisk.pdf… read moreAsterisk Powered Distributed Call Centres (Video)
December 23 2011
Looks like TMC has posted my presentation from AstriCon 2011! You can see the presentation in its entirety over here: http://www.tmcnet.com/tmc/videos/default.aspx?vid=5821&title=Asterisk-Powere d+Distributed+Call+Centers And the presentation along with the demo configuration files is available on my website at: http://leifmadsen.com/sites/default/files/AstriCon%202011%20-%20Building%20a%20d istributed%20call%20centre.zip Filed under: Asterisk read more.bashrc trick for git repo and branch information
December 22 2011
The other day I was talking to my friend Russell Bryant who pointed me to some .bashrc magic that would show me which branch I was currently working with inside a git repo on my system. I found it incredibly handy and have modified the ANSI colour coding slightly. On… read moreRelaying SMTP via Gmail (or Google Apps) Using Postfix
November 22 2011
Today I had the need to start relaying mail through my Google Apps account since Super-Evil-Bastard-ITSPRogers blocks sending email (it’s probably a good thing, however it’s quite annoying when running some services from home). Found this article while Googling, and it worked great first try. I like when things are… read moreControlling outbound bitrate using tc
November 02 2011
Today I was using the VMware vCenter Converter application to build a VM from a physical machine so that I could replace Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS with VMware ESXi (and move the functionality that the server is performing now to a VM instead of it being the base OS). Because my… read more#AstriCon 2011 Quote of the Conference (@abalashov)
October 30 2011
I think the best quote I heard the entire time came from @abalashov (Alex Balashov) during the AstriDevCon when we were talking about Asterisk documentation, and how we might better organize it within the source. We were discussing perhaps moving some of the existing configuration file examples to a manpage,… read more#AstriCon 2011: Cooking With Asterisk
October 28 2011
My other presentation at AstriCon 2011 was Cooking With Asterisk, an overview of some dialplan snippets (pulled from the Asterisk Cookbook). http://leifmadsen.com/sites/default/files/AstriCon 2011 – Cooking With Asterisk.pdf Filed under: Asterisk read more#AstriCon 2011: Building a Distributed Call Centre
October 26 2011
The presentation and configuration files from my presentation at AstriCon 2011 today is available at: http://leifmadsen.com/sites/default/files/AstriCon 2011 – Building a distributed call centre.zip Filed under: Asterisk read moreAstriCon presentation today at 11:40am
October 26 2011
I’ll be speaking at AstriCon today (and tomorrow) about building a distributed call centre. The presentation will be 35 minutes long and will contain a set of slides that moves you from an existing traditional PBX system up through a distributed model (which happens to use a call centre as… read moreAlso find Leif on:
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