ONLamp: OSCON Day 4–Jabber, Chandler and a Monkey

“It’s 8:45 PM Thursday and I have just finished my second day at
OSCON 2003. It was even better than yesterday.

“I began the day with Dave Smith’s Jabber Jazz session. The more
I see this stuff, the better it looks. Dave presentation talked
about Jabber as a whole and then described what people are doing
with the Jabber protocol and server. He began with the basics (a
simple IM client) and went on to some really cool stuff including
Workflow, web services and probably the coolest idea, Jabber
Bots.

“A Jabber Bot is an application that acts as a normal user,
logged into a Jabber server, listening for messages and then
performs the commands that are packaged in the messages. It is
extremely cool–the applications are endless…”

Complete
Story