Archive for the ‘xmpp’ Category
Hello World; Meet Speeqe
My team and I have been working on a new project. When we started Chesspark, we had no visions for a Web version, but that changed quickly after my wife showed me a JavaScript demo she wrote of a chess board with drag and drop pieces. We took that little demo and added AJAX and […]
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A few months back, our users started to complain that clocks were skipping a lot and that chat messages were getting delayed. After a little bit of digging we realized the root cause: avatars. A few random users had avatars that were quite large (relative to normal xmpp stanzas). Because a TCP connection can only […]
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On Moderation Of Chats
If you give some normal people anonymity and an internet connection their behavior becomes atrocious. This is unfortunately very obvious when anyone joins any public discussion on the Internet. The public jabber conference rooms have been dealing with this problem as the popularity of XMPP increases. At Chesspark we run into this problem a lot, […]
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WuChess Has Launched
Chesspark has just launched WuChess in partnership with RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan. This new site is federated with Chesspark (and the rest of the XMPP community) and has its own look and feel. Members will get to watch and possibly play RZA and other hip-hop stars and interact with a community that shares a […]
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Want $500? Help Us Fix Jabberd2!
We make heavy use of jabberd2 2.1.x at Chesspark. smoku has been making great progress taking this somewhat orphaned code base, maintaining it, and adding new features. However there is a memory leak in the session manager component that neither he nor we have been able to find. Please see the following MRTG graphs of […]
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Chesspark has recently made a donation to the Twisted Software Foundation and become a founding sponsor. You can see our logo on the front page along side other companies which also use Twisted like LucasFilm, Sun Microsystems, and Zenoss. We use Twisted for almost everything at Chesspark. Not only is it used by Palaver (our […]
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Walled Gardens Response
Sander recently wrote about Facebook’s announcement that they would be exposing their new chat features via XMPP over at the Cocinella blog. I’m very happy to hear that another large company is planning to support open standards, and I completely agree with Sander that we should avoid walled gardens. However, I did have some comments […]
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