Olark is a lightweight method to chat with visitors to your website using your existing instant messaging client. Visitors to your website appear as buddies on your Buddy list, their messages to you appear as IMs.
OK, I guess I'll break the cherry on this blog. I spent some time last week reading up on the XMPP spec for presence notification and buddy list (sorry, "roster") management. It's not really that complicated, but it's written in that typical RFC style that is really hard to understand.
As of yesterday I had basically everything working nicely in iChat, which seemed great. But then today I tried Adium, and of course the buddy lists don't show up at all there; same for gaim.
The nice thing about working with open source stuff, however, is that I can look at the code and see where it's going awry. Or, recompile the whole thing as a development build and step through it with a debugger. Which I am doing now.
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