{"id":1153,"date":"2006-07-14T19:09:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T22:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2006-07-15T17:25:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-15T20:25:21","slug":"this-week-in-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"This week in short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">S<\/span>urreal. Objects really look closer in mirror, particularly if they drive fast, zoom past to come at a standstill after hitting a pole. Add to that in front of the place you live in.\n<\/p>\n<p>On a serious note, I&#8217;ve been looking into the <a href=\"http:\/\/exodus.jabberstudio.org\/\">sources of Exodus<\/a> (a Windows Jabber\/XMPP client) as a means to refresh my brains about the protocol formerly known as Jabber. I noticed that the dev-crew solely focusses on developing the program using the latest of latests Borland compilers, meaning that I miss out. Originaly, the late <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgmillard.com\/blog\/\">PGMillard<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saint-andre.com\/blog\/2006-04.html#2006-04-27T09%3A15\">+<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Millard\">Wikipedia<\/a>) wrote Exodus for the D5-D7 compilers: around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=739\">September last year<\/a>, I was able to compile the sources<sup>1<\/sup> but haven&#8217;t been able to do so, since March this year. I back-ported the Exodus this week, and the sources are now (once again) compatible with my compiler. Earlier this week I added the latest changes to my version and I will continue to monitor the changes in the official branch.\n<\/p>\n<p>Talking about Jabber and XMPP, the only thing that blocks real adoption is the fact that some client implementations are rather shoddy so to say (it&#8217;s getting better though): however, the Jabber daemons are actually good and rock solid and fit nicely in any company structure. Server-to-server communication is a <em>snap<\/em> and works flawlessly out-of-the-box. If you need to separate messenger communication on the Intranet from communication on the Internet, you can&#8217;t go wrong on Jabber. It&#8217;s open source too, XMPP is an IETF standard, plus it&#8217;s longer around than the current (propriety) messenger protocols.\n<\/p>\n<p>Oh and for those who missed it: Now might be a good time to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/5179886.stm\">look for a tin foil hat<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><small><sup>1<\/sup> Due to an excusable mistake I lost those original sources, hence the backporting.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surreal. Objects really look closer in mirror, particularly if they drive fast, zoom past to come at a standstill after hitting a pole. Add to that in front of the place you live in. On a serious note, I&#8217;ve been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}