Vortragsdetails
Realtime IM/Chat Notification of E-Mail, CVS, Syslog, Mediawiki and Drupal Events
von Carlo v. Loesch (psyced.org), Stephen R. van den Berg (Cubic Circle BV)
Donnerstag, 31.05.2007, Saal 4: Kaiserslautern , 12:00-13:00 Uhr
SMTP is a push technology with messages traveling our way rather than us having to look for them. Yet, during the 90s we stopped reading our mail on our mail servers, e-mail clients needed protocols to access our e-mails and now these e-mail clients periodically ask the server for new mail rather than receiving it in real-time. This introduces an unnecessary latency in e-mail conversation.
This talk provides a practical solution how procmail can be used to forward a mail's author and subject line straight to an IRC, XMPP or PSYC client, so at least you know when a new e-mail has arrived, immediately, and you can hit that "Get Mail" button. You can even set up such a mechanism for all users on the system, so they don't have to figure out procmail by themselves.
We will also show realtime notification interfaces for software versioning system check-ins, syslog daemon events, Mediawiki edits, Phpbbs and Drupal message submissions. All of these things can be brought to you in real-time rather than by e-mail or not at all.
Über den Autor Carlo v. Loesch:
Grown up in Rome, Italy. Berliner by choice and nationality. Since the day he saw Bitnet Relay, there was no turning back. The idea of having decentralized servers exchange human chat became his obsession. Early experiments with peer-to-peer chats and IRC improvements around 1989 led him to design something new, the Protocol for SYnchronous Conferencing. PSYC decentralizes better than IRC, but keeps the power of multicast routing. While still under development, PSYC was already proving its virtues in the business world as a heavy load distributed webchat system. Still today PSYC is never finished, but that's just because it aims to perfection. Oh yeah this guy also releases music on records and makes parties. And he installed his first Linux at a time when the entire TCP/IP stack was in a file called tcp.c.
1990 ircII contributor. 1995 PSYC protocol designer. 1996 lead of technology at stern magazine. 1999 chat events with politik-digital. 2001 distributed high scalability chats for T-Online. since 2003, Europe Music Awards chats for MTV. 2006 XEP-0190 fixing a bug in the XMPP protocol. During all this time, public development of the major PSYC implementation, psyced.
Über den Autor Stephen R. van den Berg:
Hacking since 1980, Z80, hardware
TRS-80, CP/M: Designed and created my own TRS-80
compatible machine, and wrote a CP/M BIOS for it from
scratch, optimised to death.
Author of procmail. A tool I developed to scratch my personal
itch, because I was a member of way too many mailinglists
(this was in the days before spam); currently the tool is present
on almost every UNIX machine and is your most versatile friend
in the fight against spam.
IRC hacker since 1990
Linux kernel development since 1992
One year GCC development: was a full member of the GCC
developmentteam for more than a year. Pushed the envelope
on registerpassing of arguments for x86.
Numerous other contributions to many Open Source projects,
amongst which PostgreSQL, Pike and Roxen.
Author of Cucipop.
Running an ISP.
SQL guru, Pike expert, RXML.
