Moblogger and Jabber - it works!
I did some tinkering with Moblogger and Jabber this evening, and I'm stoked to report that I successfully posted to Roller! I grabbed some code from blojsim and had it running fairly quickly. The biggest problem I ran into? Finding a Jabber client that would actually post a message (rather than a chat). The Jabber clients I have on my machine don't seem to post messages, so finally I downloaded skabber and everything worked right away! Too bad I spent the last hour trying to figure out what I was doing wrong (nothing). This could present a major problem for users. Most will probably be like me and assume they can use any Jabber client, when in reality, it has to be one that can send messages. For all I know, they all do, and I was just too tired to figure it out.
There's a heckuva lot more work to do, but the proof of concept is complete. One thing is that Moblogger uses the Blogger API - which doesn't seem to support titles. Bummer - we can probably fake it though (add bold, and a couple of <br />'s). I suppose I should apply for that project space now from SourceForge and get the code checked in.
Posted by Greg Klebus on May 08, 2003 at 08:01 AM MDT #