24th Jan 2010
Jabber Feed 0.5 released
As I announced in a recent message (in French though), I am coming back to more visible activity on this public diary. To begin with, here is the new version of my Wordpress plugin: Jabber Feed 0.5. As a reminder, this plugin publishes your articles and the comments on XMPP’s pubsub nodes.
Asides for minor fixes, here are the three main changes:
- A Wordpress widget has been added, enabling for any Wordpress administrator (even not computer-technically skilled) to add the XMPP feeds in one’s sidebar by simple drag-and-drop. This is part of the reason I redesigned my website a few hours ago with a new themes enabling the widgets (my old theme was coming from a time before widgets)!
- The NET_DNS dependency has been removed for SRV Records support, under the assumption the server is running Windows with PHP 5.3.0 or superior, or GNU/Linux (any PHP version). For BSD (Mac included), the NET_DNS library is still required. Consequently my plugin has an intelligent behaviour, testing then using NET_DNS if available, otherwise the base PHP function when possible, or else it will deactivate SRV support.
- Implementation of the algorithm for dealing with priority and weight of SRV records’ targets as described in RFC 2782. The SRV support is now nearly fully compliant (only the Time To Live parameter’s support still needs to be added).
My own tests succeeded, but I am welcoming any bug report or any feedback, obviously! Do not hesitate.
As a side information, I wanted to inform there exists now a XMPP pubsub reader, the first publicly released, as far as I know: OneChannel, by Process One. Unfortunately my MIPS machine does not handle well flash (and this software uses the Adobe AIR technology) so I am not able to try it out. If anyone out there wants to try and tell me how it reacts to the pubsub messages generated by my plugin, I am wide-eye-opened. Bye!
As I announced in a recent message (in French though), I am coming back to more visible activity on this public diary. To begin with, here is the new version of my Wordpress plugin: Jabber Feed 0.5. As a reminder, this plugin publishes your articles and the comments on XMPP’s pubsub nodes.
Asides for minor fixes, here are the three main changes:
- A Wordpress widget has been added, enabling for any Wordpress administrator (even not computer-technically skilled) to add the XMPP feeds in one’s sidebar by simple drag-and-drop. This is part of the reason I redesigned my website a few hours ago with a new themes enabling the widgets (my old theme was coming from a time before widgets)!
- The NET_DNS dependency has been removed for SRV Records support, under the assumption the server is running Windows with PHP 5.3.0 or superior, or GNU/Linux (any PHP version). For BSD (Mac included), the NET_DNS library is still required. Consequently my plugin has an intelligent behaviour, testing then using NET_DNS if available, otherwise the base PHP function when possible, or else it will deactivate SRV support.
- Implementation of the algorithm for dealing with priority and weight of SRV records’ targets as described in RFC 2782. The SRV support is now nearly fully compliant (only the Time To Live parameter’s support still needs to be added).
My own tests succeeded, but I am welcoming any bug report or any feedback, obviously! Do not hesitate.
As a side information, I wanted to inform there exists now a XMPP pubsub reader, the first publicly released, as far as I know: OneChannel, by Process One. Unfortunately my MIPS machine does not handle well flash (and this software uses the Adobe AIR technology) so I am not able to try it out. If anyone out there wants to try and tell me how it reacts to the pubsub messages generated by my plugin, I am wide-eye-opened. Bye!
Posted in Jabber/XMPP en français, Jabber/XMPP in English, Programmation | 8 Comments »




