http://blog.jwchat.org coding and stuff Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:02:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After releasing JSJaC and MUCkl today I'm proud to announce another long awaited release: JWChat v1.0. JWChat is a web based yet full fledged jabber client. It supports most modern browsers like MSIE 6 and 7, Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, Opera, Safari and many more. Just like meebo you can ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/12/10/jwchat-10/ A new release of MUCkl is available. MUCkl is a lightweight spin off project of JWChat. It offers web based access to Jabber/XMPP groupchats/conferences based on the MUC protocol without having to register for a jabber account (just enter your nickname and off you go!). This release mainly fixes support ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/12/10/muckl-044-is-out/ A new release of JSJaC is available. JSJaC is a jabber/xmpp library for web based clients written in JavaScript. It supports BOSH and HTTP Polling for connecting to a jabber server. This release mainly fixes issues with Firefox 3. http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/12/09/jsjac-v132-released/ Glad to announce that all core services of jwchat.org are back online now. If you're still experiencing problems let me know! jwchat.org is running on ejabberd-2.0.1 now. Amongst otherst this means you can dive deep into the world of refreshing PEP experience. Also there is a new SSL certificate now. The old ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/11/30/jabber-services-back-online/ Some status update: Moving jwchat.org's services from one host to another appears to be a lot more time intense as I first thought. Currently I'm about to import roster data to the new mysql db which seems to take hours. Finally I managed to get the websites back in partial ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/11/29/work-in-progress/ I've just ordered a new server for jwchat.org as the old machine is running out of resources. As of this I'll be moving services from one host to the new one within the next days so you might notice short periods of service downtimes. I'll keep you up2date on this ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/11/24/new-server-for-jwchatorg/ Today I'll be giving an interview to radio fsk, hamburg. The topic is about twitter and openmicroblogging. They'll have Cem Basman from WhisperN News and Media (brokerz) at face and I'll join later on to talk about the role of XMPP in the field of openmicroblogging. The live broadcast calls ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/10/08/today-radio-talk-on-openmicroblogging-in-german/ Today I decided to give twitterspy a try in order to get rid of a dedicated twitter client that wastes space and resources on my desktop. Twitterspy is a jabber bot that sits in your roster and forwards messages to twitter back and forth. As it's still missing some helpful documentation ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/09/19/twitterspy-a-jabberxmpp-gateway-to-twitter/ As my last post on XMPP and microblogging has gathered lots of attention I thought it might be a good idea to establish a place for collecting all of the informations on the topic and coordinate further steps. Thus I've setup a trac environment at http://open-birdcage.com. I've already started linking ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/09/11/open-birdcage-project/ Currently I'm preparing for the long awaited release of JWChat v1.0. I haven't been working on it for a long time now (2-3 years) and all I want to do is to fix some remaining issues, do some compatibility tests and that's it. So if you know of some things ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/09/09/last-steps-towards-jwchat-10-and-thoughts-about-whats-beyond/