How to write External Jabber Components in PHP using Jaxl library?
Jabber Component Protocol (XEP-0114) documents how XMPP protocol can be used to communicate between servers and “external” components over the Jabber network. XMPP components “bind” to a domain,...
View ArticleJAXL library – List of available hooks for various XMPP events
Jaxl 2.x provides an event mechanism using which developers can register callbacks for various xmpp events inside their application code. This blog post will demonstrate how to register callbacks for...
View ArticleHow to Write a Spelling Corrector in Erlang (ESpell)
Erlang is a beautiful programming language from Ericsson which i first came across while cutomizing authentication flow of ejabberd about 2 years back. Ever since then I have been using erlang for all...
View ArticleAnnouncing Jaxl v3.x – asynchronous, non-blocking I/O, event based PHP...
Jaxl v3.x is a successor of v2.x (and is NOT backward compatible), carrying a lot of code from v2.x while throwing away the ugly parts. A lot of components have been re-written keeping in mind the...
View ArticleWorking with Jaxl – A Networking Library in PHP – Part 1 – An Introduction,...
Development of Jaxl library started way back in December’07 while I was working on a self-initiated project called Gtalkbots. The project is now dead, if you are interested in knowing more about it go...
View ArticleJAXLXml – Strophe style XML Builder : Working with Jaxl – A Networking...
Prior to Jaxl v3.x, the most ugliest piece of code inside Jaxl library was handling of XML packets. If you are working with XMPP protocol which is all about sending and receiving XML packets, it can...
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How to perform X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM and Google Talk X-OAUTH2 XMPP...
Ever since Jaxl library first introduced support for X-FACEBOOK-PLATFORM XMPP authentication mechanism, it has changed significantly. Also, Google Talk now supports OAuth 2.0 Authorization, an XMPP...
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Back to blogging: What to expect
Hello Readers, I started this blog as a way to share my experiments and experiences while learning web development and computer science in general. In the first 2 years (between Apr’08 and Aug’10) I...
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Customizing Redis pubsub for message persistence
Redis comes packed with a simple yet powerful PubSub API. It provides low latency and scales well. A message published on a channel is received by subscriber(s) at the other end. However, if no...
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Customizing Redis pubsub for message persistence – Part 2
In the last post we saw how Redis can easily be modified to persist the last published message on PubSub channels. Without subscribing to the PubSub channel we were able to get the last published...
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