Day: May 2, 2003

Leo:

Call for Help and The Screen Savers will be dark today – we’re showing re-runs instead – so we can all go see X2. It’s in my contract.

Remind me to write that into the next contract I sign…

The Jabber Developer’s Handbook [amazon] by Dana Moore and William Wright will be coming out in the next couple of months.  I’m really excited about it.  It looks to be oriented toward machine to machine communication (messaging, RPC, etc) using Jabber.

I looked at Instant Messaging in Java, which looks great for creating chat clients.  I’m going to take a closer look at Programming Jabber, but at first glance it seemed to be all-perl.  That’s not a bad thing, I just seem to have a hard time wrapping my head around perl stuff sometimes.

Big things will happen in the future with Jabber/XMPP as the transport protocol, and I’m not talking about Ronnie and Kim trading gossip over IM.

Via Sam Ruby, Matthew Thomas muses out loud about the ideal GPL blogging system.  I can’t say that I agree with absolutely all of them (I’m with Sam, the database might not be neccesary) but he hits on many good points.

Sam Ruby:

A Python implementation of Gump is proceeding, this time with a GUI.

I’ll definately have to check this out.

Linux Today, Slashdot and others are reporting on Red Hat’s x86-64 “Technology Preview.”  Here’s the press release from Red Hat, release notes are here.  You can grab it from the main Red Hat ftp site or one of the various mirrors.