Why I am a Possibilian Hacker: #define [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] The term `hacker' also tends to connote membership in the global community defined by the net. It also implies that the person described is seen to subscribe to some version of the hacker ethic. It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe oneself that way. Things hackers detest and avoid: IBM mainframes. - From the Jargon file (more or less). Back to the Manifesto
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Use XMPP to Create Your Own Google Talk Client Instant communication is the essence of social networking and the Internet. The popular Google Talk, which uses XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), made this Instant Messaging protocol prominent among open standards protocols. Exploring XMPP (formerly known as the Jabber protocol) is fun — it is a transparent and simple architecture. XMPP is an XML-based open standards protocol. We connect to the server using a TCP socket in our program. Since our purpose in this article is to code our own Google Talk client, the hostname of the server we will use is gmail.com, and the port we will use is 5222, the default port for the XMPP service. The sequence of the initial interaction between client and server is as follows: As already noted, the communication between client and server is in the form of XML streams, over the connection created at the beginning of the interaction. Resource Stanza Presence Here’s a sample of an XML presence indication stanza: Message Roster Hands-on client code
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