[Asterisk-Users] CDR Web Search Frontend

[Jamie Carl]

Ok, is it time for my comments on all of this?

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:56:22 -0500
  Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 16:29, CW_ASN wrote:
>> Yes, I know... but some people uses Windows and hates 
>>web frontends (some
>> customers, for example)...
>> I hate Windows platforms, but I'm only a technician...
>

If this is the case, obviously you need more experience in 
creating user friendly web frontends.  Some that I have 
seen are brilliant and look great on any OS.  PHP is best 
suited to what we are trying to do, because it's powerful, 
it has all the feature we want to use and it runs on the 
server.  Introducing FTP transfers and other such 
mechanisms is just asking for trouble.  Plus tying it to a 
windows system is very Anti-productive.

>Then please reread the whole of my argument. I was 
>arguing only against
>a front end that couldn't be used on other platforms 
>also. This is why I
>was so down on VB, it is only usable on Windows. I was 
>mildly down on
>.net stuff only because of the potential to have the mono 
>rug ripped out
>from under you. At least with a C++ app and a cross 
>platform widget set,
>you could write for windows and get linux and BSD for 
>nearly free.
>

Steven, i resent the discrimination of VB programmers, 
especially the comment: "those types of programmers are 
unlikely to use linux in any fashion".  I've been writing 
in VB for 8 years and it was the first language I learnt. 
 I still use it occasionally.  Even though I use C on both 
windows and Linux, Python and now PHP.  It has it's uses. 
:)  Agreed though that this admin project is not one of 
them. :)


As for the rest of this discussion, I have already started 
work on this Asterisk Web Interface. (visit 
http://astweb.sourceforge.net).  The current release is 
still only the CDR section, but things are starting to 
evolve and I expect to have something usable in the next 
few weeks.  It is being written in PHP and will attempt to 
use ZERO OS-DEPENDANT code.

Regards,

Jamie Carl
Jazz Inc.
Email:  me at jazz-inc.net
Web:    www.jazz-inc.net
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