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June 10, 2007

New Pidgin Tutorial

I spent some time updating the Hab.la Pidgin tutorial so that it now correct for the most recent version of Pidgin. (It was bad luck that the GAIM/Pidgin folks had to go and release a new version of Pidgin right after I wrote the first tutorial) In any case there is a new tutorial for getting started with Hab.la using pidgin.

In other news the Hab.la front page will now detect what OS you are using and customize some of the text based on what OS your running. (i.e. we no longer emphasize iChat if your running Windows)

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April 26, 2007

Pidgin/GAIM Tutorials

In a moment of procrastination I created a GAIM/Pidgin tutorial for our friends on Windows and Linux. I suppose you could even run GAIM/Pidgin on OSX if you wanted, but who would when you can run Adium. (It's pretty confusing that GAIM just changed it's name to Pidgin, and libgaim to libpurple -- what is this litigious work coming to?) In any case I intend to create a basic tutorial for adding Hab.la to your website pretty soon.

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April 26, 2007

Pidgin/GAIM Tutorials

In a moment of procrastination I created a GAIM/Pidgin tutorial for our friends on Windows and Linux. I suppose you could even run GAIM/Pidgin on OSX if you wanted, but who would when you can run Adium. (It's pretty confusing that GAIM just changed it's name to Pidgin, and libgaim to libpurple -- what is this litigious work coming to?) In any case I intend to create a basic tutorial for adding Hab.la to your website pretty soon.

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April 24, 2007

Buddy lists and whatnot

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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