Archive for February, 2007
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve chosen a new name for the Wildfire server: Openfire. There’s several things I really like about the new name:
We preserve the fire theme, which makes for an easier transitition. In fact, we’re working on some snazzy updated logo ideas right now.
The new name better communicates two of the strongest […]
Dave and I are at ETel 2007, the Emerging Telephony Conference put on by O’Reilly, talking about the new voice features in Openfire and Spark. It has been great to meet many of the people who are working to change the voice and telephony landscape. There has been lots of buzz about Adhearsion, a Ruby […]
Smack uses an XML Pull Parser (XPP) to parse XMPP stanzas and build custom Packet objects. Wildfire represents XMPP stanzas as DOM objects wrapped by Packet objects. Each approach has its own pros and cons. Moreover, in Wildfire we can use different parsers to generate DOM objects.
For Wildfire 3.2 we needed to change the way […]
Thanks to everyone for the feedback on our need to move to a new name
for Wildfire. We are still working on a new name to take the
place of Wildfire. Also, based on the blog posts we received, we
realized that we should provide more clarification on how the trademark
issue arose, and our need to move to […]
I’m in Brussels for the XMPP interop event and FOSDEM. Tonight I was at a FOSDEM gathering (beer drinking) with fellow XMPP fanatics Peter, Ian and Alex. Totally randomly, the other half of our table was filled with the developers behind SIP Communicator. We’re big fans of what they’re doing, given that we’re working on […]
How does building software for an open source community compare to the commercial world? It has been three years since I started working on an open source project. Before this exciting work I spent ten years building commercial software and I can tell you that the differences are really big both on the final product […]
I love XMPP. So, it’s only fitting that I got some special license plates for Valentine’s Day:
The new look for my car definitely confirms my nerdiness to the world, but I’ll wear that badge proudly. I know that Peter has “Jabber” plates on his car. Anyone else out there? Anyway, give me a friendly honk […]
After coding night and day for a while, I sometimes forget that people need some help getting setup with some of our new features. It’s always a balancing act between development, forums and writing up documentation for all this good stuff we’ve been coding up. Trust me, I have Matt and Greg always […]
I speak with Wildfire and Spark users on a regular basis to find out how they are using the software. I really enjoy this dialogue and believe it is one of the most important activities for improving both Wildfire and Spark. Not too surprisingly, several patterns have emerged and they are pretty interesting. Here are […]
The second in a series of articles on developing plugins for Wildfire and Spark.
