Archive for December, 2006
We just published a roadmap for the next releases of Wildfire and Spark. One thing you’ll notice on the page is a list of the top 10 issues by votes. We make a big effort to prioritize new feature development based on user and customer feedback, so make your voice heard by casting votes!
The parody movie This is Spinal Tap includes a hilarious scene where the members of the “loudest band in the world” point out that their amplifiers can actually be turned up to eleven. I was reminded of the scene as we’ve been doing scalability testing on the next version of Wildfire. It turns out […]
Peter St. Andre recently blogged about the Jabber Software Foundation becoming an intermediate certificate authority. In his words:
“What: The ICA enables us to easily and cheaply issue real, RFC3920-aware digital certificates to administrators of Jabber servers […].
Why: Easily obtainable digital certificates will result in more widespread use of channel encryption among servers and between users […]
Every time I’ve had to deal with SSL/TLS certificate handling in Java it’s been hugely frustrating and time consuming. There’s a lack of good information and examples published, and getting anything done requires using multiple libraries (the built-in JCE in some cases, Bouncy Castle in others, etc). That’s resulted in a functional but not very […]
The concept of transports is what brought me into the world of XMPP in the first place. At the time, I was tired of having to recall my usernames and passwords for AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo every time I switched to a new machine or IM client. The ability to store all […]
We’ve been doing a lot of work integrating VoIP into Spark using Jingle and SIP (see Thiago’s blog post), so of course we wanted to gather ideas from some existing user interfaces. The result? “Ahhh, my eyes hurt!” In my not so humble opinion, we found more people getting softphone UI’s wrong rather than right. […]
One amazing fact about communication is its constant evolution. And this fact makes me very excited and passionate about working with it. What feeds this fantastic evolution is the crossing of frontiers — communication evolves every time one barrier is breached and a frontier is crossed.
We are very proud and happy to announce that Jive […]
Just wanted to write a quick note that we’re aware of the the site slowness issues and the caching problems in the forums. We’re working on the caching issues, and a new much more powerful server is on order. Ah, growing pains are fun.
Java 6 has been released (both Wildfire and Spark are built using Java). Normally, the fact that we use Java isn’t relevant unless you’re building plugins or making customizations to the code. However, the Java 6 release merits a mention for several reasons:
This is the first Open Source release of Java. That means that in […]
A few months ago I took on a brand new JavaScript and HTML/CSS based project here at Jive. My experiences up to that point with JavaScript had been extremely limited. The only work I had done was through my work on Jive Forums and a little bit of time while working on Wildfire. In fact, […]
