Aging computer techie. Learned Algol in 1967, then Fortran, pdp15 assembler, pdp11 assembler, Coral66, bcpl, a bit of Bliss, Ada, Prolog, and so on and so on. Latest is Python. Now one confused mess of syntax in my mind.
Been using VOIP in the form of handset to SIP provider. Now decided to install Asterisk at home in preparation for ditching Analogue lines altogether. Intent to have around 6 handsets around house plus softphones on mobiles all linked to a single channel external publicly reachable external number.
Many years ago I bought “asterisk, the future of telephony”. Thought that I had better update the 2005 version so bought 5th edition. Dismayed to find that NO examples work 'cause they are all structured as mysql queries which doesn’t appear at all in the released V20. I did however find sqlite3 - not useful though since it has only one record in it. Sigh.
Currently using the installed example and iterating from there.