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I’ve been thinking about a standards-based client for a mobile environment. XMPP has quite a few strong merits, against it’s competitors such as OMA IMPS and SIP Messaging. For one, it’s a community standard, and it’s actually possible to submit …

I know I said I was not likely to fix pywbxml, but the alternative was even less appealing. I know I have to move away from Java:

1. Continuing to use a mix of Java and PHP to leverage the
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I need to be able to receive wbxml (binary XML) and transform it to xml using the IMPS 1.1/1.2/1.3 dictionary in Python. In PHP, I was using the PHP PECL extension wbxml, which uses libwbxml (wbxml2). In …

Python 2.5.1 is bundled into Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), which comes also with setuptools. The breadth of easy_install packages is available pretty much at your fingertips on Leopard.

On the downside, Leopard’s python ships with old versions of some …

AOL has published the protocol powering both AIM and ICQ (code-named OSCAR). Although the protocol was already well known through reverse engineering, even if it’s significantly more complex and chatty than MSN’s or YMSG, this is really good news since …