Re: [jdev] conversing with multiple users, but not MUC

2008-07-01 Thread Jeff McAdams
is largely dependent on other clients implementing it as well...its the age-old bootstrapping problem. -- Jeff McAdams They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: [jdev] conversing with multiple users, but not MUC

2008-06-19 Thread Jeff McAdams
with multiple people. The user need not be even aware that MUC is being used to do it. -- Jeff McAdams They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin signature.asc Description

Re: [jdev] resources available via XMPP... [long]

2008-04-22 Thread Jeff McAdams
of meteorological background and knowledge. Anyway, its great to bounce the ideas around. To come back to square one, anyone interested in playing with QDDS? :) -- Jeff McAdams They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety

Re: [jdev] resources available via XMPP...

2008-04-22 Thread Jeff McAdams
folk, within about 30-40 seconds of the product being generated by a NWS meteorologist sitting at their workstation. -- Jeff McAdams They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin

Re: [jdev] resources available via XMPP...

2008-04-21 Thread Jeff McAdams
). Also, the NWS CAP stuff is only experimental, but its cool that they're heading in that direction, and I have encouraged them through whatever contacts I have on this initiative. -- Jeff McAdams They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor

Re: [jdev] resources available via XMPP...

2008-04-21 Thread Jeff McAdams
into a bot...I might as well just poll the RSS feed from my aggregator myself, the XMPP capability is wasted. (There is, of course, reasonable uses for having an RSS or ATOM feed via XMPP...but the real-time capabilities of XMPP are what I'm trying to highlight, here) -- Jeff McAdams They that can give

Re: [jdev] resources available via XMPP...

2008-04-21 Thread Jeff McAdams
Ernest Nova wrote: --- Jeff McAdams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless, though...one of XMPP's real strengths is that its more of an event-driven system...but so many people just don't grok the power of that, and some real, useful, demonstrations of what's possible would be very powerful

[jdev] resources available via XMPP...

2008-04-18 Thread Jeff McAdams
of some blue sky thinking ideas, both the specific one regarding earthquakes, and the more general one of having a place to post such ideas to be collected. Thoughts, ideas, comments, suggestions, volunteers, whatever...just trying to spark some creative thoughts, here. -- Jeff McAdams

Re: [jdev] resources available via XMPP...

2008-04-18 Thread Jeff McAdams
Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Jeff McAdams wrote: So, for example, with the earthquake info, the USGS has a near-realtime feed of information that use their own protocol. They have a Java utility to receive those events and drop them in a file or is also able to fire off a script. A bit