Talk to me
technical, jabber, personal
16:44 -0400
I have created a new project, which I have dubbed
“Talk-to-me”, which is a web-based instant
messaging client designed for the sole purpose of enabling website visitors to,
well, talk to me via my Jabber account. Well, not to me, per se. I’m
not conceited enough to think that anyone would want to talk to me… But
perhaps there are others out there who are.
In fact, the main reason that I wrote it was that it could be one half of a
live chat system for companies. With a correct back end, it could be used to
allow website visitors to chat with sales/support/etc. staff. Without going
into too many details, the backend would be a double-headed bot, where the
forward-facing end would talk to the web client, and the backward-facing end
would … do something, which would depend on how you want the system set up,
to distribute the chat requests between staff. Probably the best way would be
to use MUC somehow, so that
multiple staff members could talk to the same client. But I won’t go into much
detail, because for one thing, there are so many ways to do it, and, for
another thing, I’d much rather code it than to write about it.
(I’ve been (re-)reading The Chronicles of Narnia, and I think it’s affected
my writing style a bit. Well, as much as Lewis can affect your writing style
when you’re talking about coding…)