[adelaide.pm] perl @ the Fringe

Kim Hawtin kim at hawtin.net.au
Tue Feb 23 17:07:00 PST 2010


Justin Hawkins wrote:
> Just as a little bit of pimpage, if you are heading into the Fringe festivities, make sure you check this out:
> 
> http://whatgoesontourstays.com/
> 
> The guts of the system is a little PC running Asterisk, talking to a SIP box, with an old rotary phone connected to it. The IVR stuff that answers when you pick up the phone and records your sordid stories is all perl (see the Asterisk::AGI module).
> 
> Hideous, crufty perl, to be sure. I spent so long messing about with recalcitrant pulse-to-DTMF converters, uncooperative phones and truly ancient system packages, I had very little time to do the actual interesting part! But it does work, and it is cool.

Sounds like a candidate for the first technical talk?

chers,

Kim


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