Since prakbot that I mentioned a while back may be dead (I can’t get to it anymore) I have found another Z-Machine gateway here. He has even put in a few features to make playing on a blackberry easier, such as being able to set the screen width to a custom value (e.g. 68 to [...]
The problem with most server monitoring systems is they run from inside of your network, as such if there is a major outage past office hours where their monitor server is not capable of sending an alert email out (be it the mail server is down, or internet) you may not get the notification at the time of [...]
When I wrote the post Why Transports Matter back in September I openly wondered if it was possible to write XMPP transports using libpurple. Sure enough, looking at pidgin’s Soc ideas page they have the same idea right there.
I’m not saying I had anything to do with it, I have never spoken with the devs [...]
Sander Devrieze of the conccinella project explains his opinion as to why mutli-protocol clients (such as my beloved Adium) are hindering the adoption of Jabber/XMPP into the mainstream. I would have to agree with him on most of his points he makes but I am kind of at a loss to use anything else, [...]
Found this jabber This Is Mind Candy: Frivolity : PrakBot bot while looking around for information to do this very same thing in python, his is written in Java using the Smack API from Jive Software though. I did find a pure python Z-Machine that is a work in progress called ZVM but it [...]