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MAMP and PDFlib

I mainly use MAMP when developing web applications locally. MAMP is great because you can easily switch from PHP4 to PHP5, it's very easy to configure, and everything is built into one package.  However I do have a second development environment setup on my machine.  I also use the package that Marc Liyanage made available, but I only use this environment if I am dealing with PDFlib, because PDFlib does not work with MAMP.  It's lame having projects in two different development environments depending on if I need PDF support.

Getting ready for BADCAMP

Well I just arrived here in Berkeley after about 7 hours in the car with my wife and two toddlers. We bought portable DVD screens that mount on the back of the front passenger head restraints before we started our journey. The screens worked great for the first six hours of the trip, but the last hour on the road was a little crazy with my son. Luckily he fell asleep about 10 minutes after I turned off the screens.

I'll be attending BADCAMP at the UC Berkeley campus this weekend. It's an “un-conference” based on community knowledge, sharing and collaboration.  I look forward to meeting a lot of people and learning a lot while I'm here.

Drupal Asterisk module


A couple weeks ago after I upgraded my home office PBX to Trixbox 2.2.4 I did a search on drupal.org to see if there were any modules for Asterisk. Sure enough I found one that had been ported from drupal 4.6 by Chad Phillips, better known as hunmonk in the drupal community.

If you haven't checked out the module, check out his demo site and get in touch with hunmonk for a live demonstration. He showed me some pretty cool features in the demonstration, but the one that sold me was the call bridge. What happens is:

My First Blog Post

Well, I've been telling my self to start a blog for a long time, and it's been on my To-Do list forever, so I finally decided I want to mark that task as "Done". Here it is, my blog, the musings of Tom Friedhof. There's not much to see here right now, but I intend to use this space as a place to share my thoughts.

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