I previously wrote about why I’m rewriting the libpurple IRC implementation into a JavaScript implementation for Instantbird. This is kind of a follow up, but more focused on what I hope to accomplish feature wise for IRC in Instantbird. A good overview to look at is the dependencies of …
read more →In a previous post I had briefly gone over the “history of IRC” as I know it. I’m going to expand on this a bit as I’ve come to understand it a bit more while reading through documentation. (Hopefully it won’t sound too much like a rant …
read more →Another month has gone by so it’s time for another status update. Unfortunately not as much got done this month as I was hoping, but here’s a quick update of what I’ve worked on:
read more →I haven’t had an update in a few weeks (since early December) actually, so I thought I would post a bit about what I’ve worked on. I’ve fixed a bunch of bugs in the backend of Instantbird that allow work on JavaScript IRC protocol to continue:
read more →I had a request on IRC (from Mic) to write an in-depth blog post about IRC in JavaScript:
“Maybe we could ask clokep if he’d like to write something about js-irc? Why it is done, what the advantages are once it’s done, how he is working on it …read more →
I’ve been working on rewriting the IRC plugin for Instantbird since the summer (sometime in August, I can’t seem to find the exact date — at least since Sept. 10th though).
Since libpurple (used in Pidgin, Adium, etc.) provides the IRC protocol that we currently use, why do this …
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