I guess tonight while packing I had a few too many cups of coffee so I was obviously wired and decided to sit down and write some code.  I ended up writing an XMPP / Jabber relay for ENUMPlus which I must say works pretty damn good.  Setting this all up is a three step process ;

  1. Create an account / Login to enumplus.org and click “Notifications”.  Input your XMPP user account in the form and press “Send Me Notifications!”.
  2. Copy the provided dialplan addition and paste it into /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf.  Reload your dial plan of course with asterisk -rx “dialplan reload”.
  3. Add enumplus@gmail.com to your buddy list and test it out!

Here’s a screenshot to get started.

Anyway, go get signed up and test it out for yourself – it is a ton of fun!

I thought I would try my luck at developing a UI design application for a new CMS I am putting together.  As you probably already know: I love jQuery – especially the UI plugins.  The goal of this project was to store Stylesheet attributes as key => value in a database, and have them update immediately on change.  This video is really only a proof of concept that it is doable (we already know that from SquareSpace) but I would like to see an open implementation.

Another goal for this project is a smart media library which allows dragging content into these blocks.  I do not believe this is going to be as difficult to do as the actual CSS generation – but I guess we will see within the next week or two.  Anyway watch the video and leave me some feedback, I would like to know if this project has any potential whatsoever ;)

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