[jdev] Re: Hi

[Hal Rottenberg]

On 1/3/06, Emile Nijssen <e.nijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> about that, I just signed up for the mailing list, so i'm kinda n00b here.

Welcome aboard.

> I need somebody who can help me to set up a new (hehe) xmpp server as a
> gateway between my own IM and everything else. It's a personal thing that
> afaik only one other person has done before: to make an IM in
> javascript+php. The problem here is that I do want full compatability with

Well I think a lot of people have done this actually.  Sorry! 
Jabberzilla, classJabberPHP, meebo.com (don't know the backend
language), and there are others.

> - explaining how xmpp works :-) I haven't got a clue how to start right now
> - explaining SASL and other security features

I'd start at http://www.jabber.org/ and read the sections on the left.

> It would really be nice if that someone would add me in MSN Messenger.
> Further details will then follow. It shouldn't take a lot of time, I just
> need a small head start and then i'll complete everything else myself.

Let's do it the other way.  Why don't you grab a Jabber client
(http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml, there's a million to
choose from), then join a groupchat such as jdev at jabber.org, and start
chatting to find a test partner.

> The reason i'm asking this here is because I could only find either specs of
> xmpp which were extremely technical, or specs which didn't tell me enough
> about the underlying code needed to do whatever was stated there. Humans
> probably will do a lot better job explaining stuff to me than websites.

Now that is useful feedback.  Can you be more specific?  What did you read?

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