I started work on an Asterisk Widget last week as a way of taking a closer look at the AJAM interface recently introduced in Asterisk 1.4.0.

This also gave me the opportunity to upgrade from Asterisk 1.4.1 to 1.4.4 which (touch wood) seems much more reliable - well at least my Debian box has not hung since!

The widget will function as a dialer to begin with and also provide visual status indications for incoming calls and number to name mappings. Nothing that has not been done before I know, but by using the HTTP protocol and the Yahoo Widget engine I should be able to run it just about anywhere (even more so when they release a Linux client).

Writing another widget also provides an opportunity to check out the latest Konfabulator engine - 4.0. The new engine offers improved performance and reduced memory consumption - something I could have done with when I was working on the Del.icio.us Widget It also boasts built in SQLite functionality out of the box!.

It should be a busy week with JavaOne kicking off today and the fight for Rich internet Applications heating up (Apollo, Java FX and Silverlight) - my money is on Flex/Apollo, but until I actually witness Java FX i’ll hold back on that comment.

I’m still waiting on Bugzilla 3.0 before I finish the site but it’s evolving nicely so watch this space…..

One last thing! check out CollectGraph, a cool MoinMoin macro for rendering your CollectD graphs into your Wiki. It’s written by Sergiusz Pawlowicz and based on the mmRRDtool macro I started a while back - nice work!