Category Archives: xmpp

Beyond superfeedr awesomeness

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

superfeedr is one of those great web services that has bridged what interests you on the web with your lazyness to go and check it for yourself. That’s right! More seriously, you don’t have to be lazy to be quickly … Continue reading →

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Atom and AtomPub were failed

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

Joe Gregorio’s AtomPub is a failure note is probably not as provocative as its title may make it sound. Joe knows more than the average lunatic out there about AtomPub considering he was co-editor of RFC 5023 and his work … Continue reading →

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Ubikod: Here I come

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

Today is my last day at Ipsis as I’m joining Ubikod starting from Monday to become a senior software developer. Ubikod is a young but enthusiastic company that is geared toward the future as they’re leading the way of social … Continue reading →

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Is XMPP for the web ready?

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

A discussion started recently on the Jabber social mailing-list about the current state of XMPP support at Facebook. If you don’t remember the idea of a XMPP network for Facebook I’d say it’s rather normal considering they talked about it … Continue reading →

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XMPP and IronPython 2 using headstock, bridge and Kamaelia

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

I am glad to announce that IronPython 2 is now capable of running my XMPP Python library: headstock. .NET has already an excellent XMPP SDK called agsXMPP that is a native .NET/C# framework. However I’m a Python developers at heart … Continue reading →

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Geolocalization and microblogging

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

I’ve been working recently with Adrian Hornsby who’s been interested in using the microblogging example I had setup to demonstrate headstock, amplee and some ideas about microblogging in general. Today Adrian asked me how to add some gelocalization information to … Continue reading →

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Notifixious – A notification platform

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

I’ve recently registered to Notifixious home page, a notification platform that integrates XMPP natively. Though the application is not looking as polished as one might hope it already provides interesting features. Overall I think any work towards better notification system … Continue reading →

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Maintenance and time zone

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

I have recently subscribed to the excellent Good Reads network and today I went to it only to see a message saying: The system is down for maintenance as of 00:51 PDT. It’ll be back shortly. That’s okay, I mean … Continue reading →

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Release day: bridge, headstock and jlib

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

I’ve decided to make an official release of a few of my currently most active projects so that it’ll be easier for anyone to try out. So today I’ve released: bridge 0.3.6: Simple library for handling XML. This one is … Continue reading →

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jlib preview – PyQt4 library for XMPP

Posted on July 20, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

I’ve been recently working on a library called jlib that providing PyQt4 objects and widgets that can be integrated to a PyQt4 application. In other words jlib is not a new Jabber client but a toolbox to enjoy the benefit … Continue reading →

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