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Sun, 4 Nov 2007

Phone number formatting

AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

I just got email from someone on a mailing list who has his phone numbers in his email signature. He has them formatted like this:

  • 02392 xxxxxx
  • 0783 3xx xxxx

Both of those are wrong. They should be:

  • 023 92xxxxxx (023 92xx xxxx is also acceptable)
  • 07833 xxxxxx (07833 xxx xxx is also acceptable)

And yes, I will kill the next person who writes 0207 or 0208 for a London number.

Posted at 20:22:42 by David Cantrell
keywords: rant | telecoms
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Sun, 29 Jul 2007

Palm Treo call db module

To make up for a disappointing gap in Palm's software for the Treo smartphone, I wrote a small perl script to parse the database that stores my call history. I then re-wrote it as a re-useable module which also figgers out whether the call was incoming or outgoing.

Posted at 16:56:48 by David Cantrell
keywords: geeky | palm | perl | telecoms
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Sat, 2 Jun 2007

Number::Phone release

There's a new release, version 1.58, of Number::Phone, my set of perl modules for picking information out of phone numbers. Changes from the previous release are that Mayotte, Reunion and Comoros can't decide which country is which, and there's the usual updates to the database of UK numbers, mostly to support the new 03 numbers.

Posted at 00:34:36 by David Cantrell
keywords: geeky | perl | telecoms
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Tue, 13 Feb 2007

Number portability

Recently, OFCOM asked for remarks about number portability. My response is here (PDF). The free software that I refer to in that page is my Number::Phone::UK module on the CPAN, which you can see in action here.

Posted at 20:49:02 by David Cantrell
keywords: geeky | telecoms
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