{"id":94,"date":"2004-02-26T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=94"},"modified":"2004-02-26T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T22:02:00","slug":"an-im-application-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/94","title":{"rendered":"An IM application server"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written before about IM in the workplace<\/a>. It’s becoming more and more prevalent, and other people<\/a> have noticed this as well. IM is something that’s easy to use, and gives you the immediate response of the phone without be nearly as intrusive.<\/p>\n

Now, in the past, using IRC<\/a>, it was relatively easy to have a program, or bot<\/a>, that would listen to conversations, or that you could ask questions of. They were dumb, but they worked. In the world of IM, I wasn’t aware of any easy way to do this. However, browsing freshmeat yesterday I discovered an easy way to write IM applications.<\/p>\n

It’s called the SDBA Revolution Instant Messaging Application Server<\/a> and building IM applications is fantastically easy if you use this perl framework. I was able to download it, and build a simple application in about 30 minutes. And that includes signing up for the usernames from AOL. It uses a perlish syntax and doesn’t support extremely complicated applications, but does offer enough to be useful. If you can code a php<\/a> website, you can build an IM application. The author even provides six or so sample applications, including a database interface (scary!). The only issues I found with the IM app server were:<\/p>\n

1. It doesn’t support Yahoo! That’s because the Yahoo! IM perl module<\/a> has been unmaintained<\/a> since the last Yahoo! protocol update.<\/p>\n

2. I’m not sure of the legality of using a bot on a public service like AIM, MSN, or Yahoo!. Violations of these license agreements happen all the time, but, if you’re a stickler for those darn license agreements, this application server appears to work with Jabber<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just goes to show you that 30 minutes a week browsing freshmeat<\/a> or SourceForge<\/a> will almost never be wasted. A bit of slack<\/a> to do this will probably pay off in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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