Buddylist

I cranked out some buddylist code that works as expected and wrapped some tests around it all. It's live on https://soashable.com:


The next priority as far as development effort goes, is IE compatibility. Then Soashable will be ready for a limited beta and some exposure :)

Weekend Skipped

I don't think I'll have time to make progress this weekend :(

Over the course of the week, I've put a good amount of thought into how to restructure the roster code; that will definitely be the next step, whenever I have time.

Cheers!

Always One Step Away

It feels like this project is always one step away from the magical Beta. It's not quite there yet, but I removed the Extreme Alpha warning, anyway. I didn't get to everything I wanted to do this weekend, but I did manage to get some documentation together, set up an SSL certificate, get popout functionality semi-working, and fix an issue where idle connections die after a certain amount of time. All of this is live on https://soashable.com.

I think the next high priority item is to get the roster up to snuff: show presence and status message, and separate offline buddies. And of course, continued work on documentation.

Work might slow down in the coming weeks, because I got a second job and I need to search for an apartment.

Cheers!

Documentation

I started putting together some developer documentation, as well as general info on the project:

• http://labs.devspan.com/soashable-web (this will move to sf.net as soon as the project is approved)
• http://xmpp4js.sf.net

Weekend Objectives

Now that school is started, I have to keep my weekend ambition small. Here are a few things I plan to do for Soashable this weekend:

1. Create an informational page, including a "Getting Started Guide"
2. Polish UI functionality around Buddylist and IMs
3. Set up SSL
4. Add chat state notifications (typing, signed off/on, went idle)
5. Possibly rewrite or tweak RosterItemManager and PresenceManager code
   

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