I tried explaining the title of this blog post to Jasmine this morning. Suffice to say my explanation needed a bit of practice. And more than 140 characters. Or it might just be I’m a bit stir crazy from Winter returning with a vengeance in these here parts. But I wanted to call out a couple o...

Després de llegir Privacy in the Age of Persistence de Bruce Schneier, que només mos recorda quelcom que ja sabem, he esborrat anys de xats arxivats i he canviat la configuració del Gmail per tal que no desi els xats. Aquests els desaré al Pidgin, en local, al meu ordinador, però els aniré esb...

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After trying out many different instant messaging programs over the years I have settled on Pidgin in the past few years. It is lightweight, incorporates all of the services I use frequently, and works seamlessly in Ubuntu.  Actually, not so frequently I guess; I am only signed in for a little whil...

This is the fifth in a series of messages describing new features in Isode R14.4, scheduled to ship in April 2009. You can see all of the messages on this blog relating to R14.4 by clicking on this linkIn R14.4......

Running XMPP over HF Radio links presents unique problems. Isode examines them and proposes solutions....

E’ un po’ di tempo che volevo scrivere qualcosa relativamente a Bombus, un client XMPP open source, di qualità più che notevole, proveniente dalla Russia, e funzionante su tutti i cellulari con supporto JavaME. Per chi non sapesse cosa è XMPP (che sta per Extensible Messaging and Pres...

Google App Engine: A roadmap update!. Receiving e-mail, background tasks and XMPP. I predict a bunch of sites will start building small parts of their overall functionality on App Engine when some of these features land (much easier than hosting your own custom XMPP server)....

At the end of last week, Google updated their App Engine roadmap to include a number of new APIs that they plan to release within the next six months. These roadmap updates are probably not so headline grabbing as the Q1 2009 roadmap promises they made last October, but nonetheless important. Over t...

Jack Moffitt spoke twice at BarCamp this year. On day one he covered Start-ups and you can find that talk here. On the second day he covered XMPP, a messaging protocol he has been looking into and using. This talk covers some groud to get you up and running with XMPP is and can do....