Tech Talk- IT & Code

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."

Previously…

In the previous installment of this series, I mentioned that audio in my.OnSIP wasn't working on the iPad. In this installment, I'll go over the issues and workarounds.

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.

While it's, among other things, big in Japan, IPv6 hasn't precisely taken over in the U.S. yet. But IPv6 has serious benefits for SIP, so we've made it a priority at Junction Networks to begin making our network and systems IPv6 ready.

If you haven't seen already, Gource is a neat little tool that turns your version control system into visual art, a video of glowing movement that represent developers' changing code over time.

"Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root directory of the project at its centre. Directories appear as branches with files as leaves. Developers can be seen working on the tree at the times they contributed to the project," describes the Gource website.

This blog is by Brian, Software Engineer here at Junction Networks. This is a good read about adapting a product to the iPad; it contains some tips for developers and is the first of a series Brian will write about updating my.OnSIP for the iPad.

Initial iPad Testing

This blog is by Mike, CEO of Junction Networks. It is a reminder particularly for our PSTN Gateway customers. Please read and comment.

We've noticed a recent uptick in security breaches experienced by our Asterisk and other SIP-based VoIP PBX customers.

Would it be useful to record some of your more important phone calls to review later? Polycom offers a tool to do that with their Polycom Productivity Suite, which is an additional feature set available as an additional purchase.

So, you've got this fancy Polycom IP phone and you're wondering how you can make it do some super cool Internety stuff, aren't you?

How about a tiny web page on your phone? It could list your business addresses or the company's main fax line or anything that would be useful to have at your fingertips for quick reference. Polycom lets you do this. But what if you don't want to host a web server yourself?

As you may know, we have built two API's for our services:

1. REST API - OnSIP phone service and administrative functions
2. XMPP API - my.OnSIP functions, including presence

Our hope is that as VoIP moves more mainstream, there will be an increasing demand for telephony app development. Our software engineers have spent years connecting the dots between dated Telco infrastructure, SIP, varying IP phone hardware, and several programming languages.