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September 15, 2005

Building An IM Bot - Part III

The previous parts of this series explained what IM bots are and how they work , and then walked through the steps needed to create a Google Talk IM bot . In this part we'll look at using other IM networks, using gateway helper functions, and managing session state. Thus far we have concentrated on...

September 15, 2005

ColdFusion XMPP Gateway Update Available

An update to the ColdFusion MX 7 XMPP gateway is now available . The changes include XMPP/Jabber 1.0 specification compliance, increased connection timeout, SASL/Plain support for servers requesting SASL/PLAIN authentication, and SASL/Digest-MD5 support. This update is not part of the upcoming...

September 14, 2005

Building An IM Bot - Part II

As should be clear by Part I of this post, creating a Google Talk IM bot requires the following three items: An installed ColdFusion gateway type that is compatible with the Google Talk network. As Google Talk is built on top of Jabber which is XMPP based, the XMPP gateway that comes with...

September 14, 2005

Building An IM Bot - Part I

I recently mentioned a Google Talk bot that I put online at cfdocs@gmail.com. Google Talk users can add this user to their buddy list and then submit CFML tag and function lookups to it. (I've also brought Yahoo IM and AIM versions online as nickname cflivedocs, but more on those in a subsequent...

September 14, 2005

Dallas / Forth Worth CFUG Next Week

I'll be in Dallas next week for a customer meeting, and am flying in a day earlier so as to get the chance to present to the Dallas / Fort Worth CFUG on September 28th. We'll talk about gateways, asynch processing, SMS, IM bots, and more. I hope to see you there!

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