Over on the Voice of VOIPSA blog yesterday, I wrote about a new VoIP fraud case were a group of people stole over $4.4 million in services from a variety of Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSPs) / carriers, including AT&T and Verizon. As I note in that blog post, this…
May 20
My Github repo of SMSified experiments
Earlier in the week I mentioned a quick python app I wrote to send SMS messages using SMSified. I’m storing that code and some other experiments up in a Github repo at:
https://github.com/danyork/smsified-experiments/
If you are a Github user and …
May 19
Skulpt – a JavaScript-based way to run Python inside your web browser
In the process of writing about the site that lets you run Linux in your web browser, I learned about Skulpt.org that is essentially the same idea only for a python command line.
The demo at www.skulpt.org is pretty cool… just modify …
May 18
Greg Bayer: How to Move Files From One Git Repo To Another While Preserving History
By way of a Hacker News post, I learned of this great post by Greg Bayer:
Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History
I’ve actually had a couple of cases where I’ve wanted to move some files and keep the history. I couldn’t easily figure it out and opted to …
May 17
A Quick Python App to Send SMS via SMSified’s REST API
Today Voxeo[1] launched SMSified a new service that lets you use a really simple RESTful API to send text messages within the US for only 1 cent per message. I and other colleagues have been writing about SMSified on the SMSified …
May 17
Fun Tool to Run a Linux Computer IN Your Browser Using JavaScript
Here’s a fun little JavaScript experiment… go to:
Watch the boot sequence… and… ta da… you’ve got a Linux root prompt! Use basic Linux commands, edit files with vi, compile apps in C using “tcc”.
May 10
The End of the “Skype as Bandit” Era (Featured Blog)
And so it ends… Skype was always always a fun company to write about because they were always a bit of a rogue. The scrappy little startup that took on the megacorps of the telecom industry… and won in so many ways… look at their leading % of int…
Apr 24
Deep Tech Dives Into Cloud Availability In Light Of Amazon’s EC2/EBS Problems From Joyent and enStratus
With Amazon’s ongoing struggles with part of their cloud, I’ve obviously been watching closely, given that I work for a company that provides a cloud for communication applications (hosted almost entirely on our own global carrier-grade infrastructure). Watching Amazon’s status site, they continue to not be entirely back in action a couple …
Apr 22
Two New Amazon.com Reviews of Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks
I’ve been very humbled and pleased to see two new reviews of Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks show up on Amazon.com this month. Both are lengthy and both quite positive: Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks, by Mario Camillen on April 3, 2011 Required Reading for UC and VoIP Professionals, by…
Apr 20
Use Node.js to Build Your Own SMS or IM Interface to Twitter
Would you like to create your own SMS interface to Twitter? To be able to post your own tweets via SMS? Or would you like to have an IM interface to Twitter using Jabber, GoogleTalk, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc?
And would you like to do all …
