One of those request was for web based solution to provide billings to simple VoIP installation. As result we have created CDR billing. This is simple software to analyze billing entries in CDR format from VoIP system and provide billing reports.

VoIP phones billing? No more a problem. Img (c) http://flickr.com/photos/esparta/

Currently it supports Cisco Call Manager Express (in other words - solution available for VoIP network built with Cisco’s routes, without Call Manager appliance) for logs in compact or long format. But there is no problem to add support for Call Manager Cisco appliance logs or Microsoft’s Office Comunications Server. Or other VoIP system - You name it.

Use case

CDR billing was written with following use case in mind:

• small/medium sized company using VoIP telephony system on own network infrastructure
• company want to know costs associated with VoIP usage by particular person
• people using VoIP are associated with division/branch so reports do also cover how costs are spread between divisions/branches

Technical details

System is written in Ruby on Rails and can be run on Linux (recommended) or Windows servers, uses MySQL as database. It can be customized to match additional requirements.

CDR billing does not collect logs from Cisco devices by itself, it requires logs in CDR format being available in local filesystem.

Are You interested?

If You are interested please feel free to ask questions to cdr_billing@nettigo.com. We are flexible and can communicate without technical jargon, just to help You find right solution for You. Send us Your questions - we are curious how we can help You remove hassle from billing.

Nettigo role was to create technical solution. The whole process took total 6 weeks (devoted also to other projects) from first meeting with customer to this stage. Remember that those 6 weeks include Christmas and New Year. We were using agile approach and site is running on Rails.

This is early release with minimal set of features to make it usable, but there will be more ;) features in future, so stay tuned.

Creating Prawdziwe.info (service inspired by Follow Cost for Twitter) we wanted to explore new technologies (Sinatra framework and HAML markup) and most important: to make Blip users think before posting anything if this is really something worth sharing with others. Of course whole thing is meant to be fun :)

Prawdziwe.info is project developed in spare time and it took only 10 hours to complete - most time consuming task was to gather data who should be used as model. Apparently Robert Scoble is not on blip.pl and API does not provide easy way to find most annoying Blip user.

Nettigo Brown is theme used now on this site. Changes from previous versions are minor (graphic logo was removed, and replaced with blog title) and was made to make Nettigo Brown compliant with WP Themes requirements.

I hope You like it!

What You can expect:

• one email per month
• some useful information
• no spam

If You are using WP or You plan to use this publishing platform don’t hesitate go to signup page and well… signup :)

Changes include small bugfixes.

Patch is for download here and You can read more about this patch on my technical blog.

If You can not apply patch I can do it for You - just drop me a line.

Application allows to post messages to Watwet users from Facebook interface, new messages on Watwet can set Your Facebook status. Also if You set new Facebook status, then it will propagate to Watwet as new message.

Here You can see how it looks:

Do You need some Facebook application? Go ahead and ask.