Monthly Archives: May 2008

They made me do it…

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

I had to. More seriously though since the work I’m doing with XMPP and AtomPub these days, I thought it be a nice idea to try and plug into Twitter somehow. I guess I won’t be using Twitter much for … Continue reading →

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XMPP, AtomPub and microblogging

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

Following my previous posts about my work on mixing AtomPub and XMPP together in a single application I’ve worked yesterday on the basic workflow of the application I write. The first use case is to create a profile using OpenID. … Continue reading →

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Facebook goes XMPP

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

Via Peter Saint-André we learn that facebook is adding XMPP as a mean to connect and use its services. Independently from what usage is made of Facebook this is a great news for the Jabber community in general and the … Continue reading →

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XMPP, AtomPub, headstock, amplee and the BBC

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

Matthew Wood, from the BBC Radio Labs, posted a few days ago an exciting note regarding fun he was having with XMPP and services such as last.fm to inform user, via XMPP messages, of BBC radios broadcasting music they might … Continue reading →

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headstock: XMPP library based on Kamaelia

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

I’m pleased to announce the release of the first version of headstock, my XMPP implementation using the Kamaelia library. My main motivation behind working on that project rather than using one of the existing libraries was that I wanted to … Continue reading →

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French O’Reilly has shutdown

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

A sad news for French speakers as the French O’Reilly editor has shutdown completely due to the lack of sales. They’ll be missed.

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Redmine vs Trac

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

Following my last post in regards to a move from subversion to mercurial I received many interesting comments. One key aspect that those comments showed was that no matter which DCVS I would use it would be critical to me … Continue reading →

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From subversion to mercurial

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Sylvain Hellegouarch

I’ve been wondering lately whether or not I should be moving my different projects from subversion to mercurial. Not so much because subversion could have let me down in any ways, I’ve been very happy with it, but rather because … Continue reading →

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