http://planet.psi-im.org/ Psi Team Blog - http://planet.psi-im.org/ http://el-tramo.be/blog/swift-1_0beta2 <p>It’s only been 2 weeks since we <a href="http://www.kismith.co.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/05/28/first-public-swift-beta-released/">released the first public beta of Swift</a>, and we already got a lot of feedback. Thanks to all of you who joined the MUC and sent us their comments and bugreports!</p> <p>We decided that, before moving on to implementing the remaining missing features, we would first fix a bunch of small-yet-annoying ‘papercut’ bugs, and quickly release a <a href="http://swift.im/releases/swift-1.0beta2">new beta</a>. This way, we hope to make the Swift experience a bit smoother for our valiant testers while we are busy implementing some of the larger changes. So, if you’re running Swift on a frequent basis, or would like to jump into our beta feedback cycle, head on over to the <a href="http://swift.im/releases/swift-1.0beta2">Swift 1.0beta2 page</a>, and download the latest beta (we even have Ubuntu packages now!)</p> <p>We are aiming to put out new betas on a regular basis, so stay tuned for more Swift goodness!</p> 2010-06-11T19:08:15+00:00 Remko Tronçon http://el-tramo.be/blog/swift-gource <p>Several people have been asking us about the status of <a href="http://swift.im">Swift</a> lately. Rest assured, we’ve been hard at work in the past months, despite all the job changes, house movings, and marriages slowing us down sometimes. And we have proof: below is a <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gource/">Gource</a> visualization of the Swift Git repository from the past months (and we definitely wouldn’t fake <em>that</em>).  Swift is getting very near to the beta stage, so stay tuned for more updates!</p> <p><span id="more-625"></span></p> <p> </p> <p><em>(Note: For some reason, the video starts out a bit flaky, but it gets better after a few seconds)</em></p> 2010-04-09T21:26:13+00:00 Remko Tronçon http://delta.affinix.com/2009/12/02/psi-014-released/ <p>Psi 0.14 is here!  <span class="abbc">The website <a href="http://psi-im.org/download/" title="http://psi-im.org/download/">download area</a> has been updated.</span></p> <p>New in 0.14<br /> - Added color options to the chat window.<br /> - Can now specify a reason for kick/ban in groupchat.<br /> - Improved User Info window, to show more fields and photo view/save.<br /> - Support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell.<br /> - Commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status.<br /> - D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake.<br /> - Fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy.<br /> - Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.</p> 2009-12-03T01:09:14+00:00 justin http://delta.affinix.com/2009/11/25/psi-014-rc3-released/ <p>Psi 0.14-rc3 is here!  Please <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/psi/files/">download and test</a>.</p> <p>Final on December 2nd if no showstoppers are found.</p> <p>New in 0.14<br /> - Added color options to the chat window.<br /> - Can now specify a reason for kick/ban in groupchat.<br /> - Improved User Info window, to show more fields and photo view/save.<br /> - Support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell.<br /> - Commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status.<br /> - D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake.<br /> - Fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy.<br /> - Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.</p> 2009-11-25T19:57:21+00:00 justin http://delta.affinix.com/2009/11/17/psi-014-rc2-released/ <p>Psi 0.14-rc2 is here!  Please <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/psi/files/">download and test</a>.</p> <p>Final on November 25th if no showstoppers are found.</p> <p>New in 0.14<br /> - Added color options to the chat window.<br /> - Can now specify a reason for kick/ban in groupchat.<br /> - Improved User Info window, to show more fields and photo view/save.<br /> - Support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell.<br /> - Commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status.<br /> - D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake.<br /> - Fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy.<br /> - Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.</p> 2009-11-17T18:36:22+00:00 justin http://delta.affinix.com/2009/11/08/psi-014-rc1-released/ <p>Psi 0.14-rc1 is here!  Please <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/psi/files/">download and test</a>.</p> <p>Final on November 22nd if no showstoppers are found.</p> <p>New in 0.14<br /> - Added color options to the chat window.<br /> - Can now specify a reason for kick/ban in groupchat.<br /> - Improved User Info window, to show more fields and photo view/save.<br /> - Support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell.<br /> - Commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status.<br /> - D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake.<br /> - Fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy.<br /> - Various other minor improvements and bugfixes.</p> 2009-11-09T04:13:42+00:00 justin http://el-tramo.be/blog/beautiful-xmpp-testing <p><a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596159825"><img class="alignright" src="http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9780596159825/cat.gif" alt="" width="144" height="189" /></a></p> <p>O’Reilly recently released the book <em><a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596159825">Beautiful Testing</a></em>, a collection of essays about testing and QA in general. As I <a href="http://el-tramo.be/blog/beautiful-xmpp-testing-intro">mentioned earlier</a>, I wrote an article in that book on (unit) testing XMPP protocols, using <a href="http://swift.im">Swift</a> as a motivating example. Since the book’s scope may (oddly enough) not always be as interesting for developers in general, I released my article under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution</a> license (thanks to the good folks from O’Reilly for encouraging us to do this), which you can find <a href="http://el-tramo.be/documents/beautiful-xmpp-testing/index.php">here</a> (or directly from my <a href="http://el-tramo.be/git/beautiful-xmpp-testing/">Git repository</a>). The original excerpt from the book (including the index, list of biographies, and all the fancy artwork) is also <a href="http://el-tramo.be/documents/beautiful-xmpp-testing/BeautifulXMPPTesting-OReilly.pdf">available for download</a> under the same license.</p> <p>I of course encourage you to buy either the PDF or dead tree version of the book, as all the proceeds of the book go to <a href="http://www.nothingbutnets.net/">charity</a>.</p> 2009-11-02T14:43:20+00:00 Remko Tronçon