Archive for April, 2007
I’ve recently run into a number of innovative sites and products that use Openfire.
IMified provides tools like task management, reminders and todo’s through IM bots on AIM, MSN, and XMPP/GTalk. They’ve just released an API that will make it easy to write bots that work across all major IM networks. Openfire powers their XMPP back-end.
Mosoto […]
The engineering team at Jive Software is growing fast (btw, we’re hiring!). I thought it might be interesting to talk about some of the engineering process changes we’re making to cope with that growth, especially since they directly affect product releases. First, a bit of history. We’ve always had a fairly agile development process — […]
As the lead developer of the web-based version of a voice trading system used world-wide by some of the largest financial organizations, I have learned one or two things about web-based VoIP applications. When we designed our trading application, web-based VoIP was not ready for the 99% reliability and quality demanded for financial transactions. We […]
The Spark Skinning Service has been a hot topic here at Jive for the past couple of weeks. The service is not yet ready to serve up customized builds of Spark 2.5 (it will be ready late May) and it turns out that one small change to the service will make it much easier to […]
Earlier today, LG (IT2000) passed Gato to become the top point earner in the ignite community forums. It’s the first time ever that an outside community member has jumped ahead of Jive Software engineers, which is a pretty impressive feat. With a current score of 3475 and 5 to 10 points per question answer, that’s […]
As many of you may have noticed. the IM Gateway plugin version 1.0 was released alongside Wildfire 3.2.3. (sorry guys, I can’t call it Openfire until the official release is 3.3.0 ) The release was quite a step for me as I’ve never actually released a 1.0 of anything! Typically […]
