SamePlace

After considerable sweeping of our bug tracker, here's the compiled list of features targeted at the next minor release. It's mostly about small/incremental improvements in usability. If you know of small fixes which would yield equally significant usability improvements, feel free to file a bug.

I moved development resources from the current mix of darcs repository, Trac wiki and Drupal wiki to GitHub. Say hello to the new SamePlace wiki and the source browser.

Hopefully this will make getting into the project much easier, whether at the extension writer level, core developer, doc writer or tester. Enjoy! :-)

NotifyMe migrated on a new server and to celebrate here's a new release!!

Enjoy!
hamen

Standalone Sameplace 0.9.3

I build a standalone version (ie: a completely independent) of the sameplace extension.

Download the Windows version
Download the Linux version

At the moment, only linux and windows version are available.

To do:

Since time had come to renew the SSL certificate (thanks Eddy once more for answering my dumb questions), I took the chance and migrated the Jabber server to the same virtual server the transports are running on and also bumped up the server memory a bit. After all, changing just one variable at a time never results in an interesting day, does it? :-)

DNS propagation was quick and aside from the restart on the different machine, Jabber server suffered zero downtime. Only flaw so far is that the web address has changed from http://sameplace.cc to http://www.sameplace.cc, so if you're subscribed to feeds, you'll almost certainly receive a bunch of the old posts again. Sorry about that!

If you come across anything else looking odd, please ping me and I'll check if that's related to the migration.

Version 0.2 is finally out!

Notify me is an addon for SamePlace. It provides two main features:

Another wonderfully (?) geeky post ahead. If you're not interested in programming on xmpp4moz, feel free to skip it. :-)

I'm quite happy with xmpp4moz API so far. It supported more than one year of evolution on top of it with very few changes — a sign we're on the right track. As in everything, there's still room for improvement.

Simpler packet selection

Now:

var channel = XMPP.createChannel();
channel.on(pattern, action);

// ...

channel.release();

Possible new API:

I just committed a new XMPP connector that supports StartTLS. For those who don't have the option of connecting to ports other than 5222, finally a ticket to the party. :-)

It's available in the development branch. To enable StartTLS for a given account:

1. open the Preferences window
2. select the Account pane
3. select the account
4. click on Advanced
5. set port to 5222
6. set Encryption to StartTLS

Keep in mind that this is freshly committed code. I've tried it with sameplace.cc (ejabberd 1.1.4) and gmail.com (Google's own server software) and it connects fine. Please test it and let me know how it works for you!