Gary H. Thompson wrote:
Hi,
Most of my experience in this field have been with
Borland products, specifically Delphi. I also have been involved with
database programming, same platform as the communications.
I can't tell you anything more helpful than Michael has. I purchased a
tomb called "Fedora 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Bible" form Wiley press,
which has been very helpful.
Also I would suggest purchasing or downloading "Asterisk The Future of
Telephony". See the Asterisk Doc project:
http://www.asteriskdocs.org
I personally like a paper book to have around.
I am a Delphi man myself. As you become more familiar with and
comfortable with Asterisk, you'll inevitably want to customize
Asterisk's behavior through one of the interfaces available.
One of the most common is the AGI interface which allows Asterisk to
communicate with external programs through standard input and standard
output (ie: Writeln(), Readln()). You can call these external programs
directly from the dialplan and most people seem to prefer PHP, bash or
other integrated scripting.
Being a Delphi programmer as well, I wanted to let you know that I have
had great success in using open source FreePascal and Lazarus IDE for
developing linux based executables for the AGI interface which are
basically just console type programs. I personally prefer using
binaries because I think they execute faster than interpreted languages.
I wrote a Cepstral Text to Speech wrapper using those tools not too long
ago. Info and source is available on the wiki:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/DTSwift+Cepstral+AGI+Wrapper
When you're at the point where you want to start writing AGI and you if
you decide to try freepascal/lazarus, that may help you get an idea of
writing an AGI using FP/Laz.
Welcome to the community.
--
Warm Regards,
Lee
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