Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Guess again?

Dave says I guessed wrong. I wrote a rather lengthy reply to him. I thought it was worth posting here too...

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Then I can't wait to see what "Structured Instant Messaging" and "IM (structured or flat) threads" means. I'm guessing your IMs are made persistent, which would be really cool. The thing I wrote was a proof of concept, and I only used it a few times but i loved it.

The worst thing about using IM (for me) is the out-of-order replies that make it really hard to follow a conversation.... especially when looking back at a conversation's archives. It's hard to see the timing of how things came in to "reorder" things. This is exaggerated when talking about software development topics, trying to debug something interactively with a remote person for example.

JChatteR sessions have three windows... an input window, a thread view window and a choronological view window (the latter two were kept in sync and the former was a log of what you sent). You could double click a heading in the threaded view or the chronological view to reply to that heading. Replies would show up as subheads.

Anyway, best of luck on the 7.1 ship. Hopefully I can afford to have a Frontier kernel on my machine again!

Inxight Software – Categorizer

Browsing the Inxight site, I found this product...

Inxight Software - Categorizer

Very interesting.

Star Tree

Also found on JRobb's site today, a link to Inxight Star Tree. I wonder if they're violating any of Natrificial's patents on The Brain.

Threaded IM P2P app for Radio UserLand

JRobb just confirmed a suspicion I've had for a while... UserLand is developing a threaded IM system for Radio.

Way back in January 2000, when the callbacks were first added to Radio UserLand to make such a thing possible, I wrote a P2P/XML-RPC-based threaded IM system for Radio.

I never released it, but I did test it out with Brian Andresen, who I worked with at Macrobyte at the time. I might have also shown it to someone else but I can't remember.

Anyway, I just dug around my hard drive and found the code for it. It's doubtful I'll ever use it again so here it is...

Frontier Suite: suites.JChatteR

I guess that means "structured Instant Messaging" isn't unique to UserLand anymore... though, it still does rely on their product.

Enjoy!

PS: I have no idea how well the code works anymore, or even if the distribution I uploaded worked. Run the init script in the suite to set it up. I retain my copyright to my work.

RE: the new generation

Apologies to Cyan (my daughter).

According to my mom, Cyan CAN write her name by herself, or, as Cyan would say it, "all by my pelf!". I just haven't seen her do it yet.

sketchy mail for jim \@ roepcke.com

I'm in the middle of a mail hosting switch. Hopefully there shouldn't be any problems for anyone sending email TO me, but it might be a bit of a challenge for me to get some of my mail until the transition is complete. If you're expecting a response and haven't got one yet, this is why.