OpenSRF Jabber: A Technical Review
As has been mentioned before on this blog, OpenSRF relies on Jabber for it’s communication layer. Jabber is an instant messaging service much like AIM, Yahoo messenger, and the like. The advantage of Jabber, of course, is that it’s an open spec (see xmpp.org) and there are a number of open source server implementations, allowing … Continue Reading about OpenSRF Jabber: A Technical Review →
It’s turtles all the way down
This will be a quick one because I’m feeling a bit under the weather, but I wanted to post a quick update on some of our tornado-like progress post-alpha.
Sometimes good enough is better
There has been quite a saga unfolding slowly over the last couple months in the #code4lib IRC channel regarding the use of Amazon’s OpenSearch technology and it’s use for searching across cooperating libraries’ catalogs. Everyone there seems to agree, on a basic level, that OpenSearch is a useful search interface and that it benefits everyone … Continue Reading about Sometimes good enough is better →