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		<title>Revealing Stroke to the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to reveal the latest project I&#8217;ve been working on to the world and, just to prove that XMPP isn&#8217;t all of my life, it&#8217;s&#8230;an XMPP library. Stroke is a native Java port of the Swiften XMPP library that Remko and I work on. It came about because Isode (my day job) needed an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swift 1.0 Release Candidate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit under a month since the last beta was released, Swift has reached Release Candidate stage for 1.0. This version is being released to check that each i is dotted and each t crossed, so please report any bugs/issues that you find, and in the absence of problems we&#8217;ll aim to release the final [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kismith.co.uk/wordpress/index.php/2011/04/03/swift-1-0-release-candidate/</link>
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		<title>Swift needs *you* for Google Summer of Code 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just under 24 hours ago, the XMPP Standards Foundation were told that they&#8217;ve been accepted for Google&#8217;s Summer of Code 2011. A healthy chunk of Swift projects are within the ideas the XSF are proposing this summer, and we&#8217;re looking forward to the opportunity to involve more people in what is, for Remko and me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swift 1.0-beta9 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just released the final pre-1.0 beta of Swift (next step Release Candidate). We have no known bugs in Swift at this point, so if you find any please report them so we can get them fixed for the RC. A fuller changelog is available at http://swift.im/releases/swift-1.0beta9/, but the highlights include: * On servers that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swift-1.0beta7 released.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to announce the release of Swift-1.0beta7 (http://swift.im/releases/swift-1.0beta7/, with a long list of substantial changes since beta6: Show popup notifications for incoming messages (and optionally, presence changes) through Growl (Mac OS X), Snarl (Windows), or FreeDesktop (Linux). Acknowledge server receipt of sent messages (Demo). Subsequent presence changes in the chat log are now combined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kismith.co.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/10/10/swift-1-0beta7-released/</link>
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		<title>Reliable Messaging in Swift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Knowing whether your messages have reached your server is a common problem for people on unreliable connections, and XMPP addresses this with XEP-0198: Stream Management. Support for XEP-0198 has been slow to take off, but we&#8217;re starting to see a network effect of clients and servers supporting it, with a patch available for Psi, support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kismith.co.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/09/07/reliable-messaging-in-swift/</link>
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		<title>Swift 1.0-beta4 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working hard to keep up with the great feedback we&#8217;ve been getting on the previous betas, Remko and I are pleased to announce our fourth beta of Swift. These are the changes since 1.0-beta3: * The chat window shows the total unread message count, not only the selected chat. * Room subjects are now shown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kismith.co.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/06/22/swift-1-0-beta4-released/</link>
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		<title>First public Swift beta released.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over a year ago (while writing XMPP: The Definitive Guide with Peter Saint-Andre) Remko Tron&#231;on and I were reviewing the current state of XMPP clients and saw a gap for a simple cross-platform client targeting normal end-users who just want to chat. Swift is the client that we&#8217;ve been working on since then to fill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kismith.co.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/05/28/first-public-swift-beta-released/</link>
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		<title>XMPP: The Definitive Guide for $9.99</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just read that O&#8217;Reilly are doing just about every ebook in their store for just $9.99 today, so if you&#8217;ve not got your copy of XMPP: The Definitive Guide yet, this is a great opportunity to save some money (oh, and they sell other books too). http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596521271, use code &#8216;FAVFA&#8217; at checkout.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kismith.co.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/05/21/xmpp-the-definitive-guide-for-9-99/</link>
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		<title>More Swift teasings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been quite a while since I posted a teaser of the login window and people have been asking for updates since then, so here&#8217;s a quick post to appease everyone. We&#8217;ve been making progress steadily over the last 6 months. One of the first things we got going was the chat interface: It&#8217;s minimal, [...]]]></description>
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