collaborate version 1.0

12/27/2006 8:12 am

collaboration works… or at least part of it.

notes:

1. carriage return doesn’t work (doesn’t show in other clients)
2. backspace doesn’t work (other clients show an unkown character)
3. letters work (both upper and lower case)
4. haven’t tested other characters. although if uppercase letter works, then most probably characters that need the shift key would also work.

later…

c/o ariel (no vacation here)

ps.

messages sent in MUC are wrapped in <collaborate> </collaborate> tags (just to take the feel of having an xml-based app). to differentiate a chat message from a collaboration message, a type attribute is added. chat messages are of type “chat” while collaboration message (the one that goes in the collaboration area) are of type “work”. attribute will be expaned once the radar view feature and keyboard simulation feature is added.

current status

as of 12/27/2006 4:00 am:

1. multi-user chat works fine in the new prototype (or should i say current working app?)

currently working on:

1. sending contents of file being edited to users who joins a session
2. list of users in a session
3. collaboration
4. bugs, bugs, bugs… bug-a-boo

question:

1. should the one-to-one messaging be included?
2. can an owner of a session invite more users once the session has started? (take note that the current implementation is that to start a session, open/create a file, invite users, then start session.)

c/o ariel (no christmas here)

current status

we have finished modifying the gui.

the application now has session invitation feature.

we are currently making an algorithm for the collaboration part of the project.

c/o hana

XMPP/Jabber on LiveJournal

i was looking at my highschool classmate’s profile in her lj blog and i found out that LiveJournal also use jabber to allow their users to communicate with each other. they are using djabberd for their server. users will need an lj account and a chat client in order to communicate. friends list in roster is integrated with the user’s lj account friends list. LJ has a very large community and with millions of users, adding such feature will help their users communicate easier. (i hope i won’t get banned by the wordpress people, this post being about LJ and all. ehehe )

sources:

http://gigaom.com/2006/07/08/livejournal-goes-xmpp-jabber/

http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/07/livejournal-jabber-xmpp.html

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/716451.html

http://www.danga.com/djabberd/

-ariel

question…

hindi po ba medyo magiging sobrang simple kung mali-limit ang feature ng application namin down to “line numbers”?