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Setting up Call Parking on Asterisk / FreePBX / trixbox

Asterisk has a lot of cool features that make it a very powerful phone system / PBX.  A lot of these features aren't the easiest thing to configure by hand, so that's where FreePBX comes in.  FreePBX provides a nice web based GUI to configure a whole lot of asterisk functionality.

In addition to the core functionality that is included out of the box w/FreePBX, there are additional modules that you can install for added functionality.  One such module is the "Parking Lot" module that allows you to set up call parking on your phone system.

Adding Products to Ubercart / Drupal

Ubercart is a very nice e-commerce module for Drupal.  It has many features and functions built in, and there are also additional modules to extend that functionality further.

Making Apache config changes persistent on a cPanel / WHM system

After a recent server reboot, we came across the problem that certain items that were previously working on the Apache httpd server were no longer working.  Ok, so something changed and wasn't saved and/or reverted back during the reboot obviously.  

Setting up the Facebook Like / Send button on your site with different targets

Nowadays, everyone is on facebook!  So like most people with a website, you probably want to put the Facebook Like/Send button on your home page.

Facebook has some good tools and information for creating your like/send button, so we won't go into that here.  

trixbox and the g729 audio codec for smaller bandwidth utilization

trixbox CE (formerly asterisk@home) is a great and easy to use linux based VOIP phone server.  It takes some great open source projects like asterisk, freePBX and others, and ties it all together under a nice easy to use web GUI interface.  

Drupal and files with private / dynamic links

Drupal is a very flexible and powerful content management system, allowing a great many things to the site administrator "out of the box".  One such thing that drupal can do pretty easily is to allow you (the site admin) to attach file fields to various content types.  This allows visitors to the site to download files that may be related to the page that they are looking at.

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