Lew's blog

For years, I've played with my 4-port embedded-linux Asterisk PBX (the IP04 from rowetel.com). Now, I've finally decided to move it out of the toychest and into real use.

I needed to create and download a PDF file from my PHP recipe file application. After looking into several alternatives, I settled on the FPDF library from fpdf.org.

Development of myRecipeFile progresses slowly ever onward. I've fleshed out more of the v1 features and can share my progress.

A friend has asked me, as his technical "guru", how bad BadUSB is. Now, I'm not an expert on these things, so I had to do a little research.

For a long while, I had put aside my IP04 to concentrate on other things. Recently, I resumed my explorations of the IP04 device, still with the long-term notion of using it as a home PBX.

I'm glad for the extended absence; it allowed me to reconsider my approach, and (when I resumed playing with the IP04) do some things that I had previously found impossible to do.

Development of my web-based PHP/MySQL recipe management application ("myRecipeFile") has progressed, albeit slowly. Summer activities have taken much of my time, leaving only bits and pieces to spend on the development effort. But, develop I have, and here are the results so far.