Sorry

No problem, just send me an email so I can update exactly where and when we can meet.

Kind Regards,
Nir Simionovich

http://www.simionovich.com
http://blog.greenfieldtech.net
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Being located in Israel doesn’t immediately mean that Fridays are gone foe me, and I’m what you would call a secular Jew, not an Orthodox

Actually, as I’m a freelance consultant and render services to various customers world wide, my availability time is usually 20 hours per day – yes, I sleep about 4 hours a night. Actually, the last 3 chapters of the book, were written in a writing frenzy that lasted about 72 hours.

My contact information is available through my business website at http://www.greenfieldtech.net/contact, so feel free to contact me at your leisure.

If any of you guys are attending the Amoocon convention in Rostock, Germany – I’ll be over there talking about Asterisk Virtualization with Amazon EC2 and also an in depth session about Atomic-AGI/Particle Programming with Asterisk and its application with highly scalable Asterisk systems.

Kind Regards,
Nir Simionovich
http://www.simionovich.com
http://blog.greenfieldtech.net
http://www.greenfieldtech.net

You should join us soon on the VoIP Users Conference – though I know from others that Friday night good for Israel. Maybe we can record an interview some other day.

Best,

randy

Thanks for your comments. I hope your book is a success.

First off, thanks for the kind words – it’s nice to know that I managed to hit the spot, as what I was aiming for is writing a very simple, to-the-point AGI book, without the need to go over and over and over the various aspects that are so boring about Asterisk. Sure, chapter 1 has nothing to do with AGI programming in itself, but I thought to myself: “some beginners, that have no idea about Asterisk, may purchase the book – this one is for them”.

The choice of PHPAGI for the book was very simple, it’s very much wide spread around the Asterisk world, especially if you’re using a tool like FreePBX or trixbox, which install it by default. The idea was to establish a common base knowledge, with a de-facto Asterisk development library for AGI – which is simple, fast, reliable and most of all – stable and tested.

I didn’t include Asynch AGI in the book for a simple reason: the book introduces AGI and AMI, Async AGI is more or less a combo of these too. Asynch AGI requires a certain finesse that the beginner developer still doesn’t have from this book, thus, over complicating it with Asynch AGI would have confused people. However, I’ll take that into account in the next edition.

To be honest, the book isn’t only an AGI tutorial, as it can also serve as a wonderful source for preparing for Digium dCAP certification exam. While many regard certifications as just a piece of paper, I believe that certification in the Open Source world is very important, and having yourself dCAP certified as an Asterisk developer gives you a big plus.

As some of you may know, I’m a freelance Asterisk developer and evangelist – operating from Israel. One of the subjects that had been thrown around the Asterisk mailing list is How to be a successful Asterisk consultant. I surely hope that the many consultants out there read this book. I don’t believe that I know everything, however, after spending almost 7 years promoting Asterisk and advocating it, this book is somewhat a climax for this, as it teaches some of the methodologies I use in my work – enabling me to render a better service to my customers. I surely hope that if you’re a freelance developer like myself, you’ll practice some of the methodologies in this book – and promote a more unified, better, smarter methodology of using and developing applications with Asterisk.

Kind Regards,
Nir Simionovich
http://www.simionovich.com
http://blog.greenfieldtech.net
http://www.greenfieldtech.net