moved
Ok. I will no longer be posting on livejournal. I have moved my blog to http://thetofu.comThanks lj!
View Articleswitching blogs
I have been on livejournal for a while now and I feel it is time to part ways. Where do I go though? I would like to move it back to thetofu.com. I have been looking at what or where to switch and I...
View ArticleBirthdays
XMPP or Jabber's 10th Anniversary is coming up. I like the idea of an open day, but anything would be cool. Just a simple gathering in a MUC room would be good, but physical parties would be better! I...
View ArticlePalaver's present and future
Today, I made a new release of Palaver. It is an XMPPMUC component, created in python and twisted. The newest version is 0.6. This version has many bug fixes and speed improvements. New features are...
View ArticleTwisted Wokkel Bot
A bot is not a new thing, it has been done in IRC for a long time. In IRC, a bot is a program that listens to messages in a channel and responds to them. Bots are also being used in XMPP and...
View ArticleSpeeqe about it.
One thing I do everyday is group chat via XMPP. There are lots of ways to do this, via many xmpp clients. If I am on my laptop or computer then having a client works out well. I can chat to my hearts...
View ArticlePunjab, the BOSH of Choice.
It has been a long while since the last Punjab release. But I am happy to announce that Punjab is now at version 0.13. This release has many changes. First, there was a massive code clean up and...
View ArticleBaseball and Chess
In sports, or any competition, we always want to know who is the best. Also, we want to know who has the best chance to win the game. Some of us always want our favourite player or team to win. But...
View ArticleTwisted XMPP
It seems talk of an XMPP Server in twisted is picking up. I am looking forward to helping out!...
View ArticleWuChess Video Contest
If you have not seen this yet, you really need to check it out. Or even give it a try. ;) http://www.youtube.com/video_response_view_all?v=3YAIVQ_oh88
View ArticlePalmetto Open Source Software Conference
As some of you know I live in Charleston, SC. Likewise, you may know that South Carolina is not necessarily known as a technical state. The amount of software/engineering jobs are not the same as other...
View ArticleBeards
Want to shave someone's beard for them? Well check out the following URL:http://beard.blueion.com/Thought this piece of flash was strange but funny.
View ArticleBOSH Cloud
We all know that ejabberd is cool and erlang is extremely scalable. Facebook even decided to use erlang for their new chat system! Even with all of that, I want to write about an alternative. :) I am...
View Articleplaying chess with a livejournal account
Someone asked about using Chesspark with other XMPP or Jabber accounts and I thought I would make a quick post on how to do it with livejournal. Any XMPP account will work the same as livejournal, so...
View ArticleTooting a horn
Jack and I was recently interviewed by Duncan McGreggor at twisted.http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/InterviewChesspark200802We talk about twisted, python, XMPP, and of course, Chesspark. Thank you...
View ArticleTweet Roll for Charleston
Hey, someone put a tweet roll for Charleston micro bloggers. I call it a tweet roll because it is like a blog roll but for twitter. :) So, all you lowcountry folk check it out!...
View ArticleKISS or The Simplification of Punjab
It has been seven weeks since I have updated this. :( That is not good. Anyway, to remedy this problem I am gonna document some problems I am currently in the process of solving. The first one, is the...
View ArticlePosted using LJ Talk...
Just created a new group on GGE http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/group/xmpp I need to blog more. :)
View ArticleTwisted Words XMPP Component Example
Just created a twisted words component example for a friend. I decided to post it here so maybe people can find it. http://www.butterfat.net/wiki/Documentation/TwistedJabberComponentExample
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