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Welcome to the world of Lobster Technologies. Here you can find code, technical documentation, and blogging. We specialize in web development, VoIP telephony, business/accounting, vegan cooking, and the dark art of information security. And yes, we are available for solve all your problems.

Seriously, I shouldn't have to resort to "cracking" just to access my old tax returns. Web application programmers: Don't try to be too smart, always provide a safe fallback like a link to the PDF. And try not to make that link obscured and hard to find (I'm talking about you SourceForge) and please don't wrap that link inside another link for stat counting or something (I'm talking about you Digium.)

I've just released a new module called userdispatcher for SIP Express Router for stateless redirect SIP load balancing. Check it out!

Lobster Technologies has just anounced the release of the most annoying open source IVR application ever devised by lobsters called PhoneParrot. PhoneParrot is an app that uses silence detection to repeat everything a person says in to the phone.

• Asterisk Voice Changer 0.4
• SoundTouch 4 C
• CMahki

I just wrote a new tool generating Asterisk module project skeletons.

A new version of Asterisk Jukebox has been written in C with more features! Check it out!

I just made the navigation at the top of the page a little more 'webtwopointomg'. Gecko users will be thrilled to notice a fancy little curve in the tabs at top. If you know any XHTML/CSS tweaks that could improve the appearance across browsers (Including IE 5+, but excluding IE Mac).

Remember, if you are interested in new-school design styles, you can feel to learn from and use the XHTML/CSS/JavaScript code you find here on your own website. Just send me a thank-you email (I'm lonely) or plug me on your site.

Also, if you want to waste your time making a custom style for this site, email me the stylesheet and any required images. If it's good, I'll add it to the style-switcher.

**Update** I just noticed that the new CSS code crashes Internet Explorer 5.5! Cool!!!

I will be speaking at ClueCon in Chicago on August 3rd about writing Asterisk modules.

With my presentation, I hope to demonstrate that native modules are a reasonable alternative to AGI and spaghetti dial-plan code in many situations. Here are some examples of topics I may cover:

• Using res_odbc to cleanly tie Asterisk in with a relational database
• Licensing implications of directly linking with Asterisk
• Custom CDR modules for more advanced logging
• Generating events through the Asterisk Manager API

I don't want to get in to anything TOO complicated like timing because that is a whole can of worms in Asterisk.

This website is finally back up with a new layout. Please enjoy. There are still dead-links and holes in the navigation, but those should be resolved soon.