Archive for April, 2009
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
There aren't many options to efficiently push data into a database from the application layer. Using JDBC insert statements packaged into prepared statement and wrapped into batch is the easiest option. It seems to be the most efficient option to bypass Hibernate and other application layers. However, soon you are ...
Posted in Databases, Java | No Comments »
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Thanks to the post in http://posttopic.com/topic/google-voice-add-on-development it should be easy to develop applications that use Google Voice platform. The API is a simple REST API that POSTs requests to the Google Voice portal:
Placing Calls:
POST /voice/call/connect/ outgoingNumber=[number to call]&forwardingNumber=[forwarding number]&subscriberNumber=undefined&remember=0&_rnr_se=[pull from page]
Canceling Calls:
POST /voice/call/cancel/ outgoingNumber=undefined&forwardingNumber=undefined&cancelType=C2C&_rnr_se=[pull from page]
Sending an SMS:
POST /voice/sms/send/ id=&phoneNumber=[number ...
Posted in Mobile Development, VoIP | 5 Comments »
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
SIP App
Here is a SIP client for iPhone: http://www.vnet-corp.com/index.htm
Still looking for the blackberry app.
The following article summarizes how to use that SIP App on iPhone to talk to your asterisk server: http://www.proverbal.com/index.php/blog-menu/viewpost/25.
Google Voice (GV)
Here is an article that outlines how to configure your asterisk to use GV for inbound and ...
Posted in VoIP | No Comments »
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
GSM Service Call Forward (all calls)
To activate: * 21 * [area code and phone number] # SEND
To cancel: ## 21 # SEND
To reactivate: * 21 * SEND
Status: * # 21 # SEND
Busy/ No Answer Transfer (includes busy, no reply & out of reach
To activate: * 004 * [area code and ...
Posted in Blackberry, Telecom | No Comments »
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Blackberry OS 5.0 for Bold is available online: http://www.brettwyman.com/blackberry/9000/5.0.0.90.exe. BGR includes a complete review of the OS: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/04/10/hands-on-os-50-on-the-blackberry-bold/
My impressions
Overall pretty stable with a lot of small nice features and more to follow. Device is responsive and fast. Battery life is not as good as in the 4.6.* releases.
Major problems: Viigo ...
Posted in Blackberry, Gadgets | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Well, if you are tired of those annoying ads in the new AJAX Yahoo email application you can use the following trick. Ads can be easily removed using a client side user script.
There is a common platform that allows you to deploy different client side scripts to you browser to ...
Posted in Web | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Google is a massive money making machine that is built on the concept that they are your gate to the internet.
The thing is that internet associates with the browser on your desktop at home. On the street where most of us are it is the iPhone for rich countries and ...
Posted in Telecom, Web | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
The following command can be used to remove view private files from your clearcase view:
cleartool ls -recurse -view_only | sed -e 's:\\:/:g' | xargs rm -r
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
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Posted in Education | No Comments »