Okay all you up and coming ruby developers. Time to add XMPP presence to your applications. :)
http://rubyforge.org/projects/jabber4r/
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I am going to be blogging some tech stuff again on my personal blog, rather than just my workblog.
Now that Peter St. Andre has wrapped up most of his activities with the IETF XMPP working group, he has had some time to clean up some of the proposed protocol enhabcements to Jabber. See his blog entry, JEP City.
The collest one that I hadn't noticed before, is Jep-0080 User Geolocation.
This JEP defines a format for capturing data about an entity's geographical location (geoloc). The namespace defined herein is intended to provide a semi-structured format for describing a geographical location that may change fairly frequently, where the geoloc information is provided as Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates. Potential uses for this approach include:
As you know, recently the XMPP-CORE got the IETF nod, the other half of the equation, XMPP-IM, was Approved on Monday. Instant Messaging Planet has a good writeup on what this means for Jabber.
This is great news for those of us who have adopted Jabber technology and deployed servers, and for those of you who are still flipping between AIM, ICQ, MSN, an Yahoo!, give Jabber a try.
While troubleshooting some Jabber gateway issues at work, I realized that there was finally some new activity on the AIM Gateway.
I upgraded jabber.g4g.org to the latest version - aim-transport-stable-20040131.
It wasn't painless, it took me a while to figure out that the automake didn't fix a relative path issue in the /src subdirectory. What finally worked was the following:
sh configure --with-jabberd=../jabberd/ vi src/Makefile
As long expected, the IESG has approved the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core (draft-ietf-xmpp-core-22.txt) as a Proposed Standard. For those of you in the dark, thats the protocol behind the only tried and proven open IM platform, Jabber. Congrats to the hard working Peter Saint-Andre, and the entire XMPP Working Group.
Jabber is now the only official Internet Standard for Instant Messaging!
