Gavin Henry wrote: > 2009/3/19 Leif Madsen <[email protected]>: > >> Gavin Henry wrote: >> >>> 2009/3/19 Leif Madsen <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> If you have ideas of things you think are lacking in the second edition, >>>> or have >>>> ideas of things that absolutely must be in the third edition, don't >>>> hesitate to >>>> reply here, or contact me directly at "leif.madsen -at- asteriskdocs -dot- >>>> org". >>>> >>> Do you think there could be an Advanced Asterisk book? Or how is the >>> Asterisk >>> Cookbook coming along? >>> >>> The first book leaves you very hungry for more, but then nothing fills >>> in that gap. >>> >> Can you elaborate on what would be involved in an Advanced Asterisk book? >> What >> kinds of things would you expect in such a book. >> >> At this point, none of the authors of A:TFoT have enough time to start on a >> new >> book, so that's why we're going to focus on updating A:TFoT to a 3rd edition. >> Perhaps we can add some of the more 'advanced' things you're thinking of. >> >> Asterisk is a vast and powerful system, but vague answers won't help us write >> the book you're expecting. >> > > Yeah, sorry. Bad of me. I always assume people know what's in my head > when I write something! > > 3rd Edition: > > 1. For a start I would really like to see PRI/BRI stuff in the 3rd > edition. Even just using x-over cables. > Agreed. We'll be covering that in much detail > 2. Something about testing ;-) Heh. > Testing? Who needs testing? :-p
In all seriousness, though, we will be giving much though to the kinds of problems that people commonly experience, and ways to address those. > 3. Something about benchmarking and call capacities on a modern * > system. I think this may be covered already though. > We do talk about this a bit, and we'll probably do a bit more of it. That's certainly an interesting topic. > Advanced: > > 1. An Advanced edition may cover something about OpenSIPS or Kamailio > and other sip proxies using Asterisk. > This is something to give some serious thought to, but the simple fact is that all those SER-based projects are pretty complicated, and our book (as with any book) needs to be true to it's subject. I think what you might find us doing is giving a more thorough treatment of the SIP protocol itself, but we'll see what time (and skill allow). It's a good suggestion, though. > 2. Linking different PBXs together. > Yep. Good idea and one we've got on the planned outline. > My understanding of advanced, may be someones "beginner" and vice > versa, so I'll leave that up to you. > > That's about it until it comes to a point where you'd need a book per topic. > > Thanks. > Thanks for the suggestions. They are all good ones, and we'll be bearing them in mind as we go forward. -- -- Jim Van Meggelen [email protected] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. This makes me rich." Guy Kawasaki -- _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-doc mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-doc
