Adhearsion

It has now been a busy two months since Jason invited me to join the Adhearsion project as its core maintainer. We have seen the long-awaited release of 0.8.4, which brought several bugfixes and support for Asterisk 1.6.0 (and later). We have seen an ... [More] explosion of activity in the IRC channel (irc.freenode.net #adhearsion) and on the mailing list. Presentations have been made on the VoIP Users Conference (twice!), the Rubyology Podcast and at ClueCon in Chicago. At the end of this week we will have our first ever Adhearsion developers conference: AdhearsionConf! Since the release of 0.8.4 the community has been hard at work on the next version to be released, which will be called 0.8.5. This release has some pretty cool new features. My favorite among them is the integration with Blather, an excellent XMPP library and DSL. Bringing the world of instant messaging to the world of telephony opens up a whole new world of possibilities. I spoke a bit about this at ClueCon and more will be said in the coming days. My personal feeling is that the possibilities are only now being explored and the potential for creative new applications mixing these technologies is limitless. Aside from the new XMPP functionality, much work has been done on the internals of Adhearsion. We have committed hundreds of little fixes and closed many of open bugs on our bugtracker, some of which have been open for a long time. All unit tests are passing once again and numerous little tweaks have increased the framework’s utility, consistency and polish. Feedback and testing from the community has been outstanding, promising to make this the very best release of Adhearsion yet. Looking a bit further down the road we are looking to expand the reach of Adhearsion by bringing support to new telephony platforms. Our first target is to support FreeSWITCH’s excellent EventSocket API. Some code is already committed in a branch on Github. We also plan to break out some of the magic that makes Adhearsion one of the best AGI/AMI consumers into separate gems so other developers can take advantage of the battle-tested functionality they deliver. More information on our future plans can be found on our roadmap. If you are interested in helping out with these project goals, please fork us and send your pull requests. We love getting contributions. I would also recommend you find our IRC channel and drop by. I am proud to have joined such a helpful and friendly group of people. For more information on the project, visit our website at http://adhearsion.com [Less]

Event registration for AdhearsionConf 2010 – The Ruby Asterisk Developer Conference The first AdhearsionConf will be held in San Francisco on the weekend of August 14-15, 2010. Jay Phillips, the creator of Adhearsion, will be joining us for two days ... [More] of talks, discussions, hacking and pair programming on all things Adhearsion. What is Adhearson? Adhearsion is [...] [Less]

We would like to announce the first AdhearsionConf to be held in San Francisco from August 14th to the 15th. Jay Phillips, the creator of Adhearsion, will be joining us for two days of talks, discussions, hacking and pair programming on all things Adhearsion. We also have other folks on deck that will be sharing [...]

After a long time coming I would like to announce the release of Adhearsion v0.8.4! Adhearsion was originally created by Jay Phillips (@jicksta) in 2006. Since that time it has evolved to become one of the most complete and widely adopted development ... [More] frameworks for the Asterisk open-source telephony engine. This release marks the continuation of the [...] [Less]

I would like to welcome Ben Klang (@bklang) as a core contributor to the Adhearsion project. Ben has been active in the Adhearsion community for sometime, contributing patches, helping out on the Google Group and keeping the momentum of the community going. Our first order of business with Ben now on board will be to release [...]

We have been busy working on our new Moho project over the last year, and are now in the process of doing lots of exciting new things with it. A plan has been in the work for some time to port Adhearsion onto Moho, so that it may run both on Asterisk and a deploy [...]

Adhearsion is effective in making telephony applications easy to develop. The next phase is to make deployment and scaling of these applications easy while increasing choice of development environments. The first step in accelerating this phase was ... [More] announced today, Adhearsion and Voxeo Launch Voxeo Labs! It is time to take Adhearsion to the cloud. Some [...] [Less]

I just gave my talk at Ruby Kaigi in Tokyo Japan. The event is well organized and attended. I suppose that is a bit easier since Tokyo is the home of Ruby, and filled with 13 million people. Here are the slides:

While attending Euruko several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to see @aslak_hellesoy present the Cucumber Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework. BDD is a part of Agile software development focused on bringing the domain expert into the ... [More] specification process through the use of natural language. This is done through the users and developers creating a [...] [Less]

Recently an Adhearsion community member, David Lawal, built upon the PHP/REST example I posted back in February. David comes from a C#/.Net background and was beginning to learn Ruby in order to use Adhearsion. Then, in his own words: “…I needed to leverage ‘all the work’ done in .Net…As I discovered, the marriage of .Net [...]