Sep. 12th, 2011 01:28 am
More stuff I've done
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joshua0Recently I just released an early snapshot of my branch of naim that supports OSCAR. naim is the original text-mode AIM client; I have used it since at least 0.11.6 (mid-2003), if not longer. Recently, though, AOL disabled the (ancient) protocol by which we connected to AIM. Last time they disabled TOC, they replaced it with TOC2, which required a little bit of change from us; but this time, TOC2 is gone for good.
So, after two months of hacking, I wrote a protocol driver for the modern protocol, OSCAR, and modernized the Lua support for naim.
This was a big effort, and I'm pretty proud that I managed to make a positive contribution to a project that I regularly use. I also debugged one of the toughest problems I have faced recently, although I guess that is not saying much, since I solved it in an evening.
Except that the maintainer has sort of fallen off the planet and does not care. Oh well.
But anyway. Yeah. Stuff I've done. Woo.
So, after two months of hacking, I wrote a protocol driver for the modern protocol, OSCAR, and modernized the Lua support for naim.
This was a big effort, and I'm pretty proud that I managed to make a positive contribution to a project that I regularly use. I also debugged one of the toughest problems I have faced recently, although I guess that is not saying much, since I solved it in an evening.
Except that the maintainer has sort of fallen off the planet and does not care. Oh well.
But anyway. Yeah. Stuff I've done. Woo.
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