XMPP Expert, developer, author.
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Kevin's blog posts are hosted at:
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http://www.kismith.co.uk/
September 06 2009
It’s been quite a while since I posted a teaser of the login window and people have been asking for updates since then, so here’s a quick post to appease everyone. We’ve been making progress steadily over the last 6 months. One of the first things we got going was the… read moreApril 21 2009
It’s about 6 months since I was moaning to Dave Cridland about wanting to replace the xmpp server software running on my private server, and ended up with Isode kindly donating an M-Link license to do the job. Having only used the open-source servers in the past, I wondered how it’d… read moreMarch 08 2009
Over the last week since Remko announced Swift, people have shown far more interest than we’d been expecting, and have mostly been asking the same questions. While Remko and I haven’t got answers to all the questions ourselves yet, here’s a preliminary effort to share our thoughts as they currently… read morePsi under new^h^h^h^h old management
March 05 2009
A copy of an email I just sent to the Psi development list: Hi all, After a few days, I’ve given up doing a long and explanatory post. After four and a half great years of Psi, I know that I don’t have the energy for running the project that I had back… read moreWhy I /do/ document and unit test
January 17 2009
I’ve just read Justin’s Why I don’t document or unit test post that explains the way he works, so here’s a counterpoint from the way I work. I’ve inherited not documenting and not unit testing from Justin for the Psi project, where it’s fairly hard to change, and at my… read moreXMPP: The Definitive Guide - Rough Cuts edition
December 19 2008
It’s been an exciting time recently for the “XMPP: The Definitive Guide” book that Peter, Remko and I have been working on. Just over a week ago, Remko announced the availability of the book in the Rough Cuts scheme, where you can buy a PDF of the unfinished manuscript to… read moreSleek Migrate - A server migration tool.
November 30 2008
Taking a quick break from writing on XMPP: The Definitive Guide, someone in the jdev room reminded me that I started on a project a while ago to make migrating xmpp server software easier. I wanted to migrate from ejabberd to another server, and didn’t fancy writing yet another one-way conversion… read moreHoliday Gift Guide
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