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Federate the world — Best wishes from ProcessOne

This is Mickaël Rémond, Founder of ProcessOne, maker of ejabberd. I would like to wish you, customers, users, contributors, a great year 2023, for you and your family. I wish you happiness and success in your projects. I wish you serenity in the turmoil of our connected world. This time of the year is the […]

Suggestions for assessing our carbon footprint

Every one of our consumer actions has an impact on the environment and contributes to carbon emissions into the atmosphere. We all agree that global warming is not yet under control and that we must act to reduce our own emissions.

Your Development Infrastructure Needs Green & Lean Computing

Software energy consumption is on the rise. The Internet and its online services now account for more than 7% of the planet’s electric consumption. Usage continues to grow extremely rapidly while energy consumption increases almost linearly with usage. It’s time to consider green & lean computing.

Code As Craft Interview #2 – XWiki

Ludovic Dubost, XWiki founder, explains what he has learned in more than 10 years running his company. Mickaël and Ludovic discuss what it is like to be both a programmer and a founder. Ludovic discuss what you have to do to stay relevant in a quickly evolving and highly competitive environment.

Building a simple chat client using XMPPFrameWork and Cocoapods

When it comes to building an XMPP client on iOS, one will immediately struggle with the lack of documentation and a complex setup involving tweaking files and laborious try’n fail attempts. Suffer no more ! Enter the world of cocoapod: you are just 2 words away of your next XMPP chat client. See more and […]

Optimizing Erlang applications: emysql

Here at ProcessOne we are in the business of building and managing huge scale robust platforms. Be it APNS or GCM, the timely deliver of every one of them is our core task, and we need to be sure that all our infrastructure is ready for it. One of the key components of our system […]

Google I/O 2013: Services, services, services

Today was the keynote of Google I/O developer conference. The keynote is usually the place where major announcements are made regarding the Google ecosystem. Despite impressive announcements, the most important thing that strikes me is not what has been released, but what has not been mentioned.

P1PP goes live, with tools

Many of you have followed the launch of the ProcessOne Push Platform (P1PP) in our webinar. Thanks a lot! Here are a few tools that make PubSub a reality.

2012: The year of push

After many years building the reference XMPP chat server, we are now expanding to push as a platform, for ubiquitous realtime notifications.

Use your own Jabber/XMPP Component on Hosted.IM

Hosted.IM has been discontinued, but installing an ejabberd real time server yourself is easy! How to move the office to real time IM on ejabberd » On our XMPP hosted services, hosted.IM, we are now offering a possibility to connect your own Jabber Component.

Migrating from Google Apps to hosted.IM

When migrating away your chat system, from Google Apps to hosted.IM, you may face some issues. During the last two months we have received feedback from hosted.IM users reporting problems to federate with Google. Then we have discovered a common pattern on all these scenarios: their XMPP domains were formerly served by Google Apps.

XMPP-based Push Solutions: P1PP, for ProcessOne Push Platform

Last week during our webinar on XMPP-based Push Solutions we introduced ProcessOne Push Platform. At ProcessOne, we have been building large scale push platform for many years, pushing hundreds to thousands of messages per second to users or devices, which globally makes tens of billions. Based on this experience, we have announced the launch in December […]

XMPP Glossary

XMPP is widely used these days, and is here to stay for a while. We have just published an XMPP glossary for you. Roster, JID, full JID or bare JID, BOSH, caps, component, C2S and S2S, MUC, federation, dialback, PubSub, service discovery, resource, priority, transport, stanza, IQ, spim, ICE/STUN/TURN, presence, Jingle, and… Jabber. Maybe most […]

Tweet.IM update: retweets, hashtags and timeline refresh

New interesting features have been deployed on Tweet.IM. Our Twitter gateway, and thus its installation on Tweet.IM, has received new features, enabling further integration of IM and microblogging. These will be available to clients that display formatted text, well known as XHTML-IM by the specialists. For this, you will need to have XHTML enabled on […]