Archive for the ‘ Jabber ’ Category
After writing it in a couple of afternoons and letting it wait for attention (alas, in vain) for months, I decided to release purplebridge so that others may play with it. Quoting from the wiki: purplebridge is a GUI-less client for IM networks based on libpurple that disguises as a local XMPP server. Once ready, an XMPP client will be able to launch it, connect to it, and through it reach the foreign networks supported by libpurple. The wiki has more information about status and rationale[ READ MORE ]
Cross-posting from the SamePlace blog:
It would be great to import contacts from Yahoo, AIM, MSN etc with just a couple of clicks. The client-side code is herewe just need server-side transports. The server at sameplace.cc hosts an MSN transports but its unlikely that it will be able to handle more. Any Jabber administrator out there would like to have his or her transports as defaults in SamePlace, or anyone with machines and spare CPU/RAM would like to host them? Please get in touch if interested. [ READ MORE ]
To help interested users and developers be a little more aware of what is going on development-wise with SamePlace, I posted a first update (of hopefully many) on the SamePlace blog[ READ MORE ]
Version 0.7 of SamePlace, the instant messaging client for Firefox, Flock and Thunderbird, is available. Its late over here, and Im still on the lookout for subtle transition issues (who said that writing code is the hard part? Release engineers get all my respect ), so I hope youll forgive me if I spend some more lines at the servers console and fewer blogging[ READ MORE ]
After many, many weeks of should be ready real soon now, the new SamePlace web site and a release candidate of SamePlace Suite 0.7 are available. The first thing youll probably notice about both is the user interface. Most of the merit for it goes to Andrea Cuius. Ill talk more about this and the numerous other changes that happened under the hood in the release notes for [ READ MORE ]