Jabber

Very short update for this week. I'm trying to finish the parts of my client needed for sending and receiving messages. Next week I plan to start working on the Drupal module and API. Hopefully by the first or second week of July I'll be able to put something on my development site to demo the publish-subscribe functionality using an external server. Should be just in time for mid-term evaluations :)

That's all for now.
-Max

Since everyone else in a true computer science fashion decided to count weeks starting at 0, this is a second week 2 for me. As usual, I posted an update on my development site on how the coding is going. There was also a mid-week update that went over the general structure of the client component.

Not whole lot of new things to report as far as my project goes. I started reading over the relevant RFCs, I'm still in the processes of setting up the servers that I need to write and test this project, and I spent most of today playing around with a new version control system that I found called Mercurial. Other SoC students who would like to keep track of their projects in another location besides the Drupal CVS might want to take a look at it. More info on my development site.

Out of curiosity as to how the Services modules worked, I started work on a Jabber Service for Drupal. The result is a service that allows you to connect to a Jabber server and send a message. It's just the beginnings, and I'd like to see it progress. If anyone would like to expand on the idea, please do. You'll be able to find all required code here:

http://www.robloach.net/system/files/jabber_service.zip

Feel free to take a look at the code and see if there's anyway we could make Drupal->Jabber integration better. Thanks a lot!

We had a call using Skype conferencing today, and the experience wasn't that great for people running on Linux. It was pointed out that we should investigate using open solutions.

Here was the bulk of my post: