Jabber Rules!

Since 1999 I have been heavily involved with Jabber / XMPP, an open, XML-based, real-time messaging technology that is just way cool (hey, I even have Jabber license plates!). This page contains links to some of the Jabber-related work I've done.

Specs

Presentations

Check my blog for more frequent postings about my presentations.

Articles

Jingle: Jabber Does Multimedia, IEEE Multimedia 14:1 (January-March 2007), 90-94.
Streaming XML with Jabber/XMPP, IEEE Internet Computing 9:5 (September-October 2005), 82-89.
Jabber: An Introduction, Free Software Magazine, February 2002.
Let There Be Jabber, Linux Magazine, August 2001.
XML Messaging With Jabber, O'Reilly Network, October 2000 (updated version here).

From 2002 to 2007 I also wrote an irregular report called the Jabber Journal.

Documentation

Jabber Boot Camp — a tutorial written in S5 format
What is Jabber? — an introductory presentation on Jabber (grab the tarball if you'd like to borrow)
Configuration Files — sample configuration files for the jabberd 1.x server, last updated in 2001 but occasionally still helpful
Jabber User Guide — an archived copy of the old Jabber User Guide

There may be some other documentation in this area of my website, but it's probably horribly out of date so I'm deliberately not linking to it -- I'm sure you'll have more success using your favorite search engine to find what you're looking for.

Code

I'm not a great coder, which is why you won't find much here other than a few small bots.

stpeterbot — this was a personal bot I once used to auto-reply to messages people sent me; I can't even recall why I wrote it, but maybe someone will find it useful :)
surveyor — information about a bot for taking online surveys