I was recently asked to contribute my thoughts on how election monitors using simple mobile phones could improve their safety and security when working in hostile environments. More specifically, the goal was to find techniques by which their use of SMS messaging to report back to a centralized service or team could be done in [...]
ushahidi_api [Ushahidi]
This is a documentation for the Ushahidi Application Programming Interface(API). It serves as a reference for developers building tools to interact with the Ushahidi engine.
The Ushahidi API try to conform to Representational State Transfer (REST) design principles. As it is now, it supports XML and the JSON data exchange formats. In a few cases, [...]
Pastry Kit – Apple’s iPhone JS Library | Web Development | Pastry Kit – Apple’s iPhone JS Library
John Gruber has found a javascript library for iPhone webApps, from nobody other than Apple itself. This interesting library, called PastryKit, seems to have been pretty much undiscovered since google does not have much on it. In [...]
Asterisk in a cloud – Asterisk 1.6.0.5 optimized for Amazon EC2
We’ve received a number of requests for an Amazon EC2 AMI built based on the Asterisk in a cloud tutorial, so we built one.
Open source Asterisk PBX running on your corner of the Amazon cloud. Asterisk 1.6.0.5 with a VoIP optimized kernel timer.
(tags: asterisk ec2 [...]
How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system
Public AMIs to use as base:
( Images with strike through them are no longer recommended. Their are fine for experimenting and testing, but should not be used for permanent “live” servers )
(tags: linux amazon aws)
Converting Microsoft Access MDB Into CSV Or MySQL In Linux – Not Another One!
I have recently had reason to convert an Access MDB file to CSV for use in a mysql database. I don't like the idea of an Access database on a production server and Microsoft has been agreeing since 1999.
As it turns out [...]
callweaver
CallWeaver is a community-driven, vendor-independent, cross-platform, open source, PBX software project (formerly known as OpenPBX.org). It was originally derived from Asterisk. Now it supports analog and digital PSTN telephony, multi-protocol voice over IP telephony, fax, software-fax, T.38 fax over IP and many telephony applications such as IVR, conferencing and callcenter queue management.
(tags: opensource sip asterisk)
New way to skin/theme Android-> [MetaMorph] Post your Morphs – xda-developers
The purpose of this thread is to create a nice collection of MetaMorph files so that anybody can pick the morphs they like to and create a fully customized phone the way you want it. Since i really think MetaMorph is going to change the [...]
New way to skin/theme Android-> [MetaMorph] Post your Morphs – xda-developers
The purpose of this thread is to create a nice collection of MetaMorph files so that anybody can pick the morphs they like to and create a fully customized phone the way you want it. Since i really think MetaMorph is going to change the [...]
Zetetic – SQLCipher
SQLCipher is an open source extension that provides transparent encryption of SQLite databases. Data pages are encrypted before being written to storage and decrypted on read.
(tags: encryption database security cryptography)