Python

Summary Over the past few months, I’ve been part of a project team to migrate an on-premises IP PBX to the Microsoft Teams cloud-based phone system. One component of this project is the Enhanced 911 (E911) service. E911 enables the capability to automatically provide the location information of the caller to the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) when an emergency call to 911 is placed. Any multi-line phone system implemented today must provide dispatchable location information. Recent regulation in Kari’s Law and RAY BAUMS’s act detail the compliance requirements. ...

Timo Reimann wrote a handy NetBox plugin to collect and display support expiry information (End-of-Sale, End-of-Support, etc.) as well as the current Contract and Warranty coverage dates for all Cisco devices defined in a NetBox installation. His README does a good job showing the process for setting up the plugin, so I won’t repeat all the details here. The general process is: register an app with Cisco and obtain the API ID and secret. install the plugin (pip install netbox-cisco-support) enable the plugin (add to PLUGINS in configuration.py) configure the plugin (add to PLUGINS_CONFIG in configuration.py) apply the Django migrations (manage.py migrate) collect the EoX data (manage.py sync_eox_data) If all goes well, there will now be two additional tables in the UI device page for on any device whose manufacturer matches the manufacturer value in PLUGINS_CONFIG (default Cisco). ...

My experience A couple of months ago, while searching google for some odd python syntax, I received an invitation. I documented my code progress and experience over the following week in a GitHub repository as I solved each one of the problems. This was a ton of fun! What is the Google Foobar Challenge Google Foobar challenge is a set of programming challenges. It is reported that Google has used this as recruiting tool to find candidate developers to hire. (Indeed, there’s a recruitme command available once you reach the upper levels.) It consists of a (somewhat contrived) sci-fi adventure story where you are the hero trying to stop an evil antagonist from destroying a planet solving programming challenges of increasing difficulty to advance the plot. ...