erick's blog

Occasionally we find one of our SIP servers being probed/attacked by some joker running sipvicious. If you're on your machine and see a flood of packets that look like this:

I'm told that the marketing department is always looking for blog posts on something, so I figured I'd try to start posting about some ways that I use GIT. These certainly aren't brain buster techniques, but they may be helpful to the GIT novices of the world. I'll try to keep the posts to stuff that you could never do with SVN, using GIT though, that leaves the possibilities endless.

We received a comment on a recent blog post that asked us why we have implemented our music on hold (MOH) service in the manner we did. While reading the comment I realized that we released the service and alerted customers it existed, but nobody in the engineering department stepped up to explain any of the technical details behind the mechanisms we decided to support - by nobody I mean me... oops.

A recent comment on Leo's stand alone VoIP service post brought up a topic always worth exploring; SIP security. Here's the quote:

10GUI is something I came across almost a year ago that I was reminded of the other day while speaking to John about touch screen devices. Designed by R. Clayton Miller, 10GUI is a concept design in the next evolution of human interface elements. He says, "the mouse and the windowed desktop are perhaps the two greatest innovations in the history of human-computer interaction. But like all innovations, they are best seen as part of a continuum rather than a terminus."

This blog is by Erick, a software engineer here at Junction Networks

I'm Addicted to the Internet

However you look at it, fortunately or not, I have a job that feeds one of my biggest addictions: the internet. Almost every waking hour, I'm online both at work and at home.

We recently spruced up our blog with some more common features. One of these features happened to be displaying our Twitter feed in the sidebar, which you now see on bottom right of the blog. When asked to implement this feature, I set out for a Drupal solution.

A brief post over at OSTATIC about why web services companies rely so heavily on open source software makes a great point on the level of control that open source software brings to a company over an otherwise equivalent proprietary solution.

From the article...

Did you know that Junction Networks has a public web service API available to any of our customers that exposes all of the pieces necessary to manage your own hosted PBX and PSTN gateway services? In fact our admin.onsip.com web administration portal has been built entirely on top of the very same API that is open and available to the public - this means any feature you see in our administration portal is potentially available for you to implement in your very own VoIP product.

What does this mean for your business?

Douglas Crockford¹ of Yahoo! has just published an excellent new book titled Javascript: The Good Parts.

Another Book On Javascript?!