Category Archives: Pidgin

Tool to View DNS SRV Records for XMPP

Posted on 2011/08/04 by Mark Doliner

I wrote a crummy tool that displays the current DNS SRV records for a given XMPP domain. After writing it I discovered that Olark has already created something similar. My tool attempts to do some really basic sanity checks and … Continue reading →

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No Summer of Code for Pidgin This Year

Posted on 2011/03/12 by Mark Doliner

Pidgin/Finch/libpurple/Instant Messaging Freedom, Inc. didn’t apply to be an organization in Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC) this year. Why not? The short answer is that I didn’t feel we had enough developers willing to mentor students for it to be … Continue reading →

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AOL, AIM and Openness

Posted on 2010/04/02 by Mark Doliner

When I started working on Pidgin eight years ago (eight years‽ holy crap!) my main focus was the code used to connect to AIM and ICQ. The protocol is called ‘OSCAR,’ and it is a proprietary protocol created by AOL. … Continue reading →

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Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2009

Posted on 2009/10/29 by Mark Doliner

Last weekend Google hosted their 3rd annual mentor summit, following the end of their 4th annual summer of code. The mentor summit is when a few hundred mentors gather together and participate in an unconference style conference. I went for … Continue reading →

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Why I work on open source

Posted on 2009/07/05 by Mark Doliner

I haven’t written about this before, have I? I think the world is better off with free software. I don’t have anything against closed source or non-free software, I just think typical development processes for free software produce better products … Continue reading →

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What you at?

Posted on 2007/04/15 by Mark Doliner

I went over a month without posting nothing. Forshame! The past few weeks have been crazy busy. We’re working on this awesome thing at work that I can’t talk about but you’ll find out about it later but there’s a … Continue reading →

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