Amusing example however as you'll know following a style guide doesn't preclude one from using their own intelligence to choose sensible options rather than delving into the absurd.

Perhaps because it was not built for the purpose of producing shot...

Have you seen Wes Mason's PHP Weekly newsletter: http://phpweekly.info? Is this intended as a replacement?

Hi there. We'd actually been running this as a weekly news list for some time (we'd owned the domain for years) via a PHP-related product that I also run. We decided to open this up wider based on seeing the Python Weekly one, as we're also fans of Python. Someone pointed me to Wes last week and I dropped him a line and we have exchanged some friendly emails between us. I need to pick that up again after being away for nearly a week.

I think I do a reasonable job of making that clear with the introductory paragraph, but yes it is something that cannot be understated. They are just three little things that do not constitute a complete security policy.

Junction looks like an interesting library for XMPP and Node.js.

It might also interest Node.js developers to know that this article was written as part of a tutorial on writing a Google Chat bot with Node.js. To see part one of the article please see the following Hacker News post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5175913

The feature is still draft and only made version 1 in June 2009 (http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0166.html). I don't actually track changes in XMPP so I am open to correction on this point.

Around the time I actually wrote the article (many months before it was originally published in .net magazine) there had just been a libjingle release and I was told at the time it was a new thing to have this available to 3rd party developers.

libjingle has been around for years; Wikipedia says December 2005.

(It doesn't matter, but I also raised an eyebrow and started looking for the date on the blog entry when I read that sentence.)

Also, GTalk does not use libjingle but its own slightly-different pre-standard implementation, that's why it is impossible to talk to GTalk users with a XMPP client that supports Jingle via libjingle.

This is quite a mess.

I have updated the article to reflect that this was not a very recent addition.

Wikipedia may say 2005 but it did not make the draft status that the article refers to until June 2009, which we can all agree is a lot more recent.

The article was originally written as separate article to appear alongside the main article I wrote for .net Magazine.

The main article is about creating a Google Talk bot with Node.js so if you want to create something with XMPP then please have a read through of that article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5175913

Also when I submitted this article to Hacker News I entitled it "A short history of XMPP and Jabber" so I am not sure how or when it got renamed.

The current FP #1 article is from 2004 although amid the hilarity I missed the date.