TheWebFellas: Building Web and Mobile applications

After 8 years we’ve finally said a fond farewell to Mephisto and updated our site to give it a fresh new look.
In the process we’ve reviewed every post from our blog and have removed some of the less useful content. There’s a chance that you’re reading this page because the post you wanted has been removed: trust us, it was probably so out-of-date it wouldn’t...

We recently received an enquiry asking us if we could help install Elastix onto an Amazon EC2 instance. It’s been a couple of years since I last installed Asterisk onto EC2, so I couldn’t help but give Elastix a try.
Standing on the shoulders of giants.....

To increase the default Vagrant box memory with the VirtualBox provider there are VirtualBox specific configuration options. We are currently using the following:
The latest documentation also lists the following shortcut for VirtualBox memory configuration:...

We use Resque all the time - but on a recent project we came across a slight issue - our jobs were executing so quickly that the overhead of forking on every job being processed was massively effecting the time taken to process the queue.
The first line of thought was to see if we could make the jobs ‘do more’ - but they really were both as concise and as complex as they needed to be!...