July 28, 2006, 16:00
Some tech notes
MediaWiki earlier this month released version 1.7 as their new stable branch. The main compatibility change is that it requires PHP 5 which will leave many in the lurch. Couldn't they have waited a year before switching over? It's damn annoying.
No major feature changes other than experimental PostgreSQL support. I'll probably stick to the 1.6 branch for a while.
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Google Code - Project Hosting was released. It looks simple in a Google with projects being organically categorized by tags. Each project also has it's own issue tracking system. There is also Subversion hosting for each project.
However, the Subversion repository browser is suprisingly shit. Why did they even bother when you can't even view the revision history?
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Been watching a previous episode of Systm where they talk about and demonstrate Asterisk.
It's a good intro as it shows you the hardware you need and there's pretty computerized diagrams to get it into your head. I'm hoping that VOIP is something we can get into and offer at LavaNet. We have the expertise and support personel in house.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
