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Monthly Archives: May 2008

No NSCoder night for me tonight!

I’d like to make it to NSCoder Night tonight, but I just have too much else to do today. Hopefully I’ll see everyone there next week!

CocoaHeads Silicon Valley at Apple on Thursday, May 15, 2008

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, May 15, 2008 — that’s tonight! — at 7:30 in the Garage 1 meeting room at Infinite Loop 4 on Apple’s main campus. That’s inside and upstairs at Apple’s Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino. See the web site for directions. This month’s main presentation is […]

Why is Twitter not just Jabber?

Twitter is a way to post a short message to a wide group of subscribers, and to receive messages posted by a wide group of subscribers. That’s instant messaging. There’s already a standard protocol for it: Jabber (XMPP). Why not just use it? Why invent a new protocol?! Actually, Twitter already does have experimental XMPP […]