This looks very interesting, although it is at an early stage right now. A system for building and managing cloud-hosted applications, using XMPP as a communication subsystem. InfoQ: Engine Yard Releases Cloud Management Framework Vertebra
Whenever I bump into erlang (which seems to be becoming increasingly frequent) I seem to follow the same mental journey. First I look at the advantages, then admire the quality of the applications, then I get mired in trying to get my head around the syntax. Eventually I back off and decide to just run …
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A typical InfoQ summary of an interesting discussion, this time about the merits and problems of polling REST resources, and how some other approaches might help solve these problems. InfoQ: Beyond Polling? Consider PubSub, Push and MOM
Skype seems to be gently emphasising its messaging abilities at the moment as it squares up against the might of Google’s inter-operable XMPP/Jabber-based system. A recent addition to Skype’s portfolio is persistent public “chat rooms”. Apart from the same stuff that chat rooms have long been used for, the wide adoption of Skype in corporate …
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I have recently taken it upon myself to evaluate using XMPP (Jabber) as a messaging transport and collaboration protocol for distributed computing. This has been in the back of my mind for a while, but it was the realisation that my account at Dreamhost includes a publicly-visible Jabber server which prompted me into action. As …
I have just spent an hour or so evaluating a selection of XMPP (Jabber) clients, including Pidgin, Miranda, Trillian and Pandion. After some playing I have settled on Pidgin for the moment. It is a multi-protocol client which supports a whole range of services. I currently have it set up for AIM, Yahoo, Google Talk, …
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