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Supporting ourselves with XMPP

20 November, 2008 - 204 words
Our team is the first-line support for the University's web needs. This means we get a lot of diverse requests landing in our bug tracker, RT, ever day. To help us share the load, we each deal with the support queue on rotating basis, as you can see in our schedule. We use the wik...

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Deskbot

30 September, 2008 - 257 words
Deskbot is a cross-platform desktop-based Jabber client for talking to a single user – normally a bot. Th...

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Jabber transports and reliability

17 September, 2007 - 146 words
There is an open letter up on the Cocinella website about why IM clients which come bundled with support for multiple protocols are actually bad for interop. I actually agree, but the problems listed about using transports as the solution are not merely theoretical. I have been a Jabber user for more than six years and I have ...

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Jabber transports and reliability

17 September, 2007 - 146 words
There is an open letter up on the Cocinella website about why IM clients which come bundled with support for multiple protocols are actually bad for interop. I actually agree, but the problems listed about using transports as the solution are not merely theoretical. I have been a Jabber user for more than six years and I have ...

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Personal Unit Tests with a dash of magic

04 September, 2007 - 425 words
I love this idea of Personal Unit Tests. It’d be easy enough to fill in a piece of paper each day or remember to fill in the wiki page with my details, but I think I can do better than that (read: that’s too easy and dull, and would get me started sooner). How my thoughts progressed: cron a script (...

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Personal Unit Tests with a dash of magic

04 September, 2007 - 425 words
I love this idea of Personal Unit Tests. It’d be easy enough to fill in a piece of paper each day or remember to fill in the wiki page with my details, but I think I can do better than that (read: that’s too easy and dull, and would get me started sooner). How my thoughts progressed: cron a script (...

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Please apply for a job at Jive

10 July, 2007 - 112 words
At work we’re playing with Openfire, the Java-based Jabber/XMPP server. There are parts that are *cough* sub-optimal so we want to fix them. It’s open source and builds using Ant. So far, so straightforward. I want to ...

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Please apply for a job at Jive

10 July, 2007 - 112 words
At work we’re playing with Openfire, the Java-based Jabber/XMPP server. There are parts that are *cough* sub-optimal so we want to fix them. It’s open source and builds using Ant. So far, so straightforward. I want to ...

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