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Okay, so I ended up with NextGenTel as my ISP.  I ordered the connection November 18th, hoping that it would be delivered not too long after we move December 15th. Already on November 21st I was contacted by a lady, checking that my order was correct, and asking if there was something else I wanted, like a static IP or reverse DNS. This is impressive. She also asked if I had heard about this VoIP thing, which I found funny, since my title at work is system engineer and voip expert.

Ofcourse she couldn’t know that, so it’s a totally valid question. And NextGenTel probably tries to push their VoIP solution to all their customers. I hope for their own sake that they’ve fixed the QoS since I had NGT VoIP a few years back.

So. The 26th November I received an SMS, telling me that the line would be delivered December 3rd. Thats very good! We’ll even have an overlapping period where we will have internet in both apartments.

Last time we ordered broadband from NGT they waited so long delivering the line that they, in the meantime, had used all the lines in the central, so they couldn’t deliver.

The SMS also stated that they’d sent the router, and it was on the way to me. I should get a new SMS from Posten when they knew when it’d be delivered.

Yesterday I got the SMS from Posten. Then it occurred to me that I didn’t know if the router was sent to the old or the new apartment, since the billing address was the old apartment, and the installation address was the new one.

So, I contacted NGT. They told me that it would be delivered to the billing address. No worries. Then, about 18 hours a delivery guy called me, telling me that he’d be there in a few minutes, and asking me if I was home. I was at home, in the old apartment, so I answered yes.

A few moments later the same guy called me again, claiming that there was no mention of my name on the doorbell. I then asked him what address he was at, and of course, he was at the new apartment.

We agreed that he should just deliver the package at the post office at the old apartment, and so he did. So, yesterday I picked up the router. Now, the problem is to find out which of the about 10 phone sockets in the new apartent that is the right one to connect the ADSL router to.

Currently I’m developing a webservice interface for queue handling in Asterisk towards another company, that is developing a CRM solution which will utilize my webservice for Computer Telephony Integration (CTI).

So, today the developer in the other company got such an understanding of the service that he started suggesting changes. A lot of changes in the DTD etc. These changes would imply some changes in the architecture downwards in the system. It is quite scary to start tearing things apart, when you already got something working. That is, if you don’t have a large amount of unittests.

Luckily I had good unittest coverage. So changing stuff was really just a matter of changing the tests, do fit the proposed changes. Test to see where I needed to change something. Do the changes and run the tests again.

It feels very good to have proper knowledge that everything actually works properly after a refactoring like this.

Unit testing is like love. It’ll keep you going when everything else fails. (citation)

1. September postet jeg en heller lang post om reisen til London, men først listet jeg opp en del ting jeg hadde tenkt på blogge om. Nå tenkte jeg å jobbe meg litt videre på den listen.

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Via Thoughtfix: It seems like it is official, there will be a WiMAX version of the N810, and pretty soon too.

Those who wait for something good … and so on

update:

Not that it means anything for us here in Norway. I’m hoping for a HSDPA or CDMA edition.

WeSIP seems like an interesting project, or at least there might be built lots of interesting applications on top of it. WeSIP is for SIP what Jboss, Tomcat and others are for HTTP.

For the uninitiated, SIP stands for Session Initiation Protocol, and is used to set up sessions for VoIP, games, IM and more. The SIP protocol is very similar to another successful protocol you might have heard of, http.

Nokia N800 er på tross av at den kommer fra Nokia ikke en mobiltelefon… Men den kan visst fungere som en telefonsentral (PBX)

After I read about Skype on Stians weblog and another friend of me told me that skype was cool, I just had to test it out

I had a bit trouble making it work with my soundcard on Linux, but it works, and its really cool.

My skype username is (as usual) elzapp