[Aaug] Re: Asterisk book

[Christopher Fowler]

I'm reading 2 on safari

1. Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
2. VoIP Hacks

Both books are ok but I don't really see the point of buying both.  If
you have safari then check them both out.  I started with astlinux using
#1 and had a good system after just a couple hours.  #2 showed me how to
trunk 2 systems together.

Right now I'm working on an IVR system that I'm writing in Perl.  It
interfaces with our trouble ticket system and gives techs options within
those tickets over the phone.  I was looking for a good book on AGI but
I think that it is simply enough that I've nailed it.  I'm seeing much
repetition in my code so I'm debating about writing a CPAN module called
Asterisk::IVR to go with Asterisk::AGI that can read XML and do dynamic 
IVR with ease.  The ability to create a decent IVR system with just an
XML file with callbacks for dynamic stuff would be really nice.  I'm
extremely pleased with what the AGI system has allowed me to do. 



On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 15:53 -0500, Jason Noble wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> Do you have the title of that Oreilly book you were mentioning last 
> night?  You said it was a step by step discussion on getting Asterisk up 
> and running.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason