Category: Linux

C# bindings for DWG2000 SMS API

Yes, it’s done and as I promised in my previous post, I am releasing it to the public.

This project started when a local company hired me to make the API support for Linux. It was a success and the sms-client started to work right away. It was not until 2 or 3 months after finishing the project that the idea of making the source code public came to my mind and despite this project may not be a great contribution to the community, it is the first of (hopefully) many.

This particular branch of the project might be specially useful for writing quick VAS software on top of the gateway. It is much easier to write business logic algorithms in C# than in C and in my case, that’s exactly what happened.

Get a copy from my github account

Dinstar SMS API update

I’ve been working very hard in the past few months that updating my blog was relegated to the least of my priorities. It’s a pity, but I had no choice :(.

Back on the track, I came here to present an update of the Dinstar’s SMS API implementation which I started writing some time ago. I paused the project several times mostly because I had no economic reason to support my time on it , but luckily, the situation changed and today the great majority of the API is implemented and working.

I don’t maintain a changelog other than the one on github commit list, but basically, this is what changed:

– Support for API 1.4 and 2.0
– Support for authentication mechanism. (This is partial, check source code)
– Support for RSSI packages
– Support for Unicode strings
– The project is no longer a standalone application, now is a shared library.
– Several bug fixes

The C# bindings are also ready. I will publish the code probably next week.

Check the repo on github

Opensourcing my Clasipar bot

I’m opensourcing, after two years of continued use (:D), a bot for refreshing ads that were published in a specialized classified ads webpage called Clasipar, which is the most popular webpage for this kind of services here in Paraguay.

When you publish an advert on Clasipar, your announcement has a living period of 24 hours. After that, it gets lost among the thousands of other ads in the category it was published in. If you don’t periodically refresh your ad, in a daily basis for example, it will probably disappear completely unnoticed and whatever business you wanted to do, will never be concreted.

This is where this bot comes in. Once your announcement is online, the bot refreshes it daily so you don’t have to worry about this task anymore. You can even publish 3 copies of the same announcement and configure the bot to automatically refresh them at 9am, 1pm and 5pm, for example. This method allows you to get your ad always in the front page of its category.

On September 21 of 2010, I wrote a post about this piece of software and here’s the entry.

Check out the code at https://github.com/caruizdiaz/ClasiparBot. For usage, take a look to the README file.