XMPP, Buddycoud, FOSDEM
February 20 - 2010
Lots has happened since I last time wrote something here. All more or less XMPP related.
I am now member of the XMPP Standards Foundation. The XMPP Standards Foundation (formerly the Jabber Software Foundation) is an independent, nonprofit standards development organization whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). You can read more about XSF from here.
I have been also working a lot with the Buddycloud project. We have rewritten the system to be based on PubSub instead of MUC. So far it seems that the decicion to do that was correct and the change has been a success.
I also participated FOSDEM and XMPP Summit at Brussels during the beginning of February. You can read more about it here.
Excellent Devoxx 2009
November 23 - 2009Last week I participated Devoxx 2009 conference in Antwerp. It was a great success!
The speaker list was very good. Just to pick some, I really enjoyed Antonio Goncalves' presentation about Java EE 6, Franck Greco's talk about HTML5 and Robert C. Martin's talk about development craftmanship.
I was delighted to see that XMPP was part of so many presentations at the conference. Patrick Chanezon's and Guillaume Laforge's demo of Google's Appengine and Groovy was based on XMPP. Ross Mason's presentation iBeans: dead-simple integration for the Web included examples implementing XMPP. And Ofcourse Frack Greco's presentation HTML 5 Communications - The New Network Framework for the Web was heavily XMPP related.
I think Devoxx 09 was a great success. I hope I have the opportunity to join it next year too!
Those who could not join, please check Devox 09 presentation from Parleys.com.
What have I done and why?
April 13 - 2009
Since the depression is here, I decided to check my HTML skills and see if I can work on that field too or I should just give up and start begging like the guy on the left. Hmm, sadly even our CV's look the same.
I tried begging and I sucked at it. I was very good going the drinking part though... So I need to keep my programming skills up.
Well, the real reason why this site exists is that I needed to set up my own XMPP server for my personal use. Luckily my girlfriend's laptop was old enough so I bought her a new one and the old one has now new responsibilities.
After the XMPP server was up and running I wanted to try some jQuery stuff since I needed to do a small project with that at work. Finally I ended up doing this site too.
List of all post on LobsterMonster.org
- 2010-02-20: XMPP, XFS, buddyloud, FOSDEM
- 2009-10-20: Devox 2009
- 2009-10-20: Strophe + F5
- 2009-10-07: RSS feeds to PubSub nodes
- 2009-08-28: Breaking News -service
- 2009-08-02: Geode-Xmpp-GoogleMap example
- 2009-07-19: Lobstermonster's Buddycloud tweeds
- 2009-07-15: Buddycloud Weather Service
- 2009-06-15: Read and comment BBC Breaking news real time in Lobstermonster Lounge
- 2009-05-17: Geolocation using Firefox's Geode
- 2009-05-17: Geolocation using buddycloud
- 2009-05-08: Simple Weather Forecast Bot
- 2009-05-03: Possibility to ping anonymous web users using my IM client
- 2009-05-01: Online status notified in both ways between Tuomas and the Guest
- 2009-04-30: Contact pages updated
- 2009-04-29: Receive BBC World news as XMPP Message (using the great PubSub feature)!
- 2009-04-19: Example how to send IQ commands to external XMPP server using XEP-0244: IO Data
- 2009-04-19: So how is most of the stuff done on Lobstermonster.org
- 2009-04-18: My mood now on my contact pages.
- 2009-04-15: The incredible XMPP - BOSH - Strophe - Multi-User Chat! :-D
- 2009-04-15: Contact pages ready - and implemented of course with XMPP
- 2009-04-14: Baby got more memory
- 2009-04-13: What have I done and why?