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August 20, 2007
Case IM is now Twitter compatible
When I first tried out Twitter, I was eager to try out the IM integration it offered with our IM server. But then I found out that it didn't work. You could add twitter@twitter.com to your roster, but it would stay in a sort of "pending" state, so you couldn't send it the claim code. My guess was that their XMPP server seemed to be requiring SRV records of us, which is only really required if your XMPP domain name doesn't match the server's DNS. Since im.case.edu is both our XMPP domain and our DNS name, it should have worked.
I sent a bug report to Twitter about it, quoting the pertinent bits of RFC 3920.
Today, I was notified that this was fixed in their updates last week, so you can all update your Twitter status via your Case IM account, if you're into that sort of thing.
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August 17, 2007
prettier presence embedding
Being able to embed your IM presence in a web page has been available for a while, and it works just fine as it is. However, embedding the text with the <OBJECT> tag is kind of clumsy and never really looked nice in the sidebar of my blog's index page.
So I improved upon this with some JavaScript magic (and a little back-end Perl):
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://im.case.edu/api/presence.cgi?jid=NetworkID"></script>
Replace NetworkID with your Network ID. You'll still have to add yourself to your Case IM buddy list for this to work.
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August 06, 2007
Case IM Avatars!
Ever try to add an avatar to your Case IM profile, but got an error that you didn't have permission to do so? That's fixed now.
I installed Hannes Wüthrich's LDAP VCard Avatar plug-in for Openfire. What this does is allow the avatar to be stored in the Openfire database, but all the rest of the user's information is still pulled from the LDAP server.
So, you can have avatars now. Go to it!
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August 03, 2007
Two weeks of Google Apps at Case
It's been two weeks since we quietly made the opt-in link for GoogleApps@Case available. We've had nearly sixty sign-ups since then. Not quite the 300 per hour Arizona State saw upon their announcement, but we're still doing this a little bit under the radar right now- it's only been mentioned in a few blogs and on Forum , and it is still summer.
Any reactions? Good, bad, otherwise?
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