[Asterisk-Dev] How do I start developing on Asterisk ?

[Race Vanderdecken]

Amazing,

	I had the exact same thoughts. I have some experience with
medicine myself (broken bones, back surgery, hernia surgery, knife
wounds, etc...) 

I would like to start on this field and do my own surgery.

	1. Learn C. 
		Asterisk is written in C and if you can't read the code
you can't get information out of it.

	2. Learn mysql. 
		See above.

	3. Learn to run Linux.
		 Windows (a great OS for worker bees) won't hack it,
asterisk needs to run on Linux.

	4. Don't write a user interface that is OS specific.
		Write a very good web-based app so everyone can use it.
Most customers do not want your app crashing their asterisk box because
of a Windows error. And you can't do remote monitoring if it is a
windows app.

	5. Arrggghhh.

	You need more studying on how asterisk works and what is
available for it. I am sure someone has done most of this already.

	Start here:
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk

	Look to sourceforge.org, the code is probably there.

All hail,

Race "The Tyrant" Vanderdecken

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Sent: 13 November 2004 03:11
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Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] How do I start developing on Asterisk ?

Hi,

I have some experience administrating Asterisk, but I neved did custom
programing on it. I would like to start on this field and do my own
programs.

Would like to hear any suggestion about what documentation to follow or
what to read to start dealing with that. I was unable to find any
reference
or guide to modules / intresintics of Asterisk that could help....

What I would like to do is something similiar to the "Agent Assistant"
describibed here ->
http://www.alcatel.com/smb/Pages/Products/OmniPCXOffice/pages/voice_call
center.htm
  I think that funtionality would be great at asterisk, and I would like
to
start doing something similiar.

I would do a kind of user-friendly interface (on Visual Basic or
similiar)
running on Win32, that interfaces with asterisk. This desktop
application
would provide session control, personal and group activity and screen
pop-ups. The agent can access information such as called and calling
number, and call-waiting time in the queue; he can also view the number
of
calls that are waiting for the various groups.

I known that is "too ambitious" for a beggining, so initially I would
program only some basic funtions, as being able to "reverse lookup" a
database of contacts trought the CallerID and show info of the person
calling on the agent, so I can choose either pickup up the phone or not.
I
would have a button that would also launch an URL with the callerID of
the
person calling, so I will be able to interface with my intranet.... and
finally, having a buttton to transfer the call to another operator if i
decide so.....and also a button that can mark my position as "busy" or
unavaiable, so no more calls are distributed to my phone... The final
idea
is to having something so complex as the agent showed at previous URL.

Any indications on what to use to develop that ? How I would interface
from
my "agent" with asterisk ?

thks

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