Starin' at the Wall

New Home for Starin' at the Wall

jconley@coversant.net — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:18:41 GMT

I've been pretty frustrated with the blogging engine here, so I took some initiative and moved my blog to jdconley.com.

Friend Photosaver for Facebook

jconley@coversant.net — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:26:00 GMT

I had a bit of a realization yesterday. I hadn't written code for the sheer fun of it in a really long time. Don't get me wrong, I love the stuff I do (almost) every day. We're coding cutting edge stuff here and it's a blast. But, I wanted to do something for me! So I wrote a screensaver.

Simpler isn't always better - AsyncOperationsManager

jconley@coversant.net — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:51:00 GMT

We have a new invitation system coming out soon for SoapBox Communicator and I was doing a little premature optimization, err, I mean, capacity planning. :) I set about to perform the simple task (or so I thought) of sending all of our email based invitations asynchronously.

XMPP Presence Priority

jconley@coversant.net — Wed, 09 May 2007 02:02:00 GMT

In XMPP (the messaging and presence protocol SoapBox uses) you can log in simultaneouslyon multiple systems. How your contat list is displayed and how messages are routed are based on hints the client software provides to the server. These are my thoughts on how to improve XMPP user experience with regards to presence priority.

SoapBox Communicator 2007 Beta 2 (Build 3.1.0.76) / Auto Update Oopsie

jconley@coversant.net — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:48:00 GMT

About an hour ago we posted build 76 as a beta release. This is an exciting release for us as it includes many man-months of development with useability being our primary focus. Of course, we couldn't resist throwing in a few great features along the way. I'd like to say thanks to all those on the "Bleeding Edge" (aka daily) build reporting bugs. As is to be expected, during our testing we encountered a couple major outstanding issues. I'll address those first.

Building Reactive User Interfaces in .NET: ISynchronizeInvoke on Idle Time

jconley@coversant.net — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:55:00 GMT

How to get things done on a .NET message pump thread (aka GUI thread) with minimal impact on the user experience.

YouTube Getter

jconley@coversant.net — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:13:00 GMT

Every once and a while you just gotta have a little fun! Here's some C# code to get the Flash Video URI from a YouTube watch link.

Validating JabberID Nodes (XMPP/SoapBox User Names)

jconley@coversant.net — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:48:00 GMT

How to provide validation of JabberID Nodes in an intuitive, user friendly, and bulletproof way.

SoapBox Communicator 2007 Beta 1 (Build 3.1.0.30)

jconley@coversant.net — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:03:00 GMT

This weekend we released the first beta of the next version of SoapBox Communicator. This product has been my focus area for a while now and I'm really happy to finally see it out to the public.

Installing Coversant Products On Vista

jconley@coversant.net — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:32:00 GMT

Due to the enhanced security in Windows Vista, not all Coversant products are able to be installed out of the box. Luckily, this is really easy to work around and, rest assured, future version of our installation packages will not suffer from these issues.