Matt Croydon::Postneo

Day: September 15, 2003

OETrends Roundup
From the recent Open Enterprise Trends newsletter:
- Using PHP and PEAR for Web Services: a quick SOAP client.
- Open Source vs. Shared Source: It all depends on how ‘open’ you want it.
- Zend Studio 3.0 Supports Mission-Critical PHP Apps: think press release.
- #develop Offers Sharp, Open Source IDE for .NET: Grab it. Use it.
- SPML Dev Toolkit Open for Free Download: SPML is “Service Provisioning Markup Language.” You’re on your own beyond that.
- Hands On: Inside the Tricky PHP-to-XML Project: Here’s the linked tutorial on parsing XML with SAX in PHP.
9/15/2003
Jabber 2.7: Corporate Messaging

Jabber Press Release:

Jabber, Inc., the leading developer of open architecture for enterprise-and carrier-class presence-enabled communications, including instant messaging (IM), today announced the general availability of the 2.7 release of Jabber™ XCP (eXtensible Communications Platform), Jabber™ Messenger, and Jabber™ WebClient.

I’ve used the free Jabber client since I started dabbling in XMPP. The version I used was not quite as complete as others, but it was clean, solid, and “just worked.” I’ll definately be taking a look at the new client.

It looks like 2.7 has some major improvements on the server side too, catering mostly to corporate clients. If you’d just like to tinker with a Jabber/XMPP server, jabber.org has an excellent list of open source server implementations.

Pertinent links: Jabber Messenger client, Jabber Platform, Extensible IM and Jabber Web Client.

9/15/2003
XML In Python and PyRSS2Gen

Uche Ogbuji wraps up the current state of XML in Python. There is an extensive list of XML software projects and their status, as well as a roundup of recent and current trends.

PyRSS2Gen is a new module for producing an RSS 2.0 feed in a pythonic way.

9/15/2003
Choose Your Crichton Movie
Wow, we’re flipping channels, and we can choose from THREE Crichton movies:
- Jurassic Park (the first one)
- Congo (great book, mediocre movie)
- Sphere (see above)
9/15/2003