Computer networks have redundant links between machines so that if one fails others can take over to guarantee deliverability. However, as we move up the stack to Person to Person communication protocols via the net, this redundancy gets dropped. Fallback messaging is a means to allow communication between two people to continue even if some of the underlying service providers fail.
Opensource clients like ayttm, eb, gaim, kopete, and transports like jabber have the edge here, let's find out how and why.
More info here: http://tech.bluesmoon.info/2004/09/fallback-messaging.html
Real user monitoring is one of the best ways of learning “the truth” about what visitors experience on your web site, but it comes at a cost. The real world is messy and noisy making it hard to know exactly what’s going on. Filtering your data, splitting it along multiple dimensions, and determining what to discard are important second steps on the path to insightful RUM analysis, and in this session, we’ll go into some of the details.
❧ Delivered a 50-minute presentation that highlighted the integration of all four-language modalities to improve skills in literacy, particularly for beginning English language learners, and ultimately, pronunciation.
❧ Exemplified classroom activities and provided materials as takeaways.
Real user monitoring is one of the best ways of learning “the truth” about what visitors experience on your web site, but it comes at a cost. The real world is messy and noisy making it hard to know exactly what’s going on. Filtering your data, splitting it along multiple dimensions, and determining what to discard are important second steps on the path to insightful RUM analysis, and in this session, we’ll go into some of the details.
❧ Delivered a 50-minute presentation that highlighted the integration of all four-language modalities to improve skills in literacy, particularly for beginning English language learners, and ultimately, pronunciation.
❧ Exemplified classroom activities and provided materials as takeaways.
Frontend Performance: Beginner to Expert to Crazy PersonPhilip Tellis
There’s no such thing as fast enough. You can always make your website faster. This talk will show you how. The very first requirement of a great user experience is actually getting the bytes of that experience to the user before they they get tired and leave.In this talk we’ll start with the basics and get progressively insane. We’ll go over several frontend performance best practices, a few anti-patterns, the reasoning behind the rules, and how they’ve changed over the years. We’ll also look at some great tools to help you.
Frontend Performance: De débutant à Expert à Fou FurieuxPhilip Tellis
Frontend Performance Beginner to Expert to Crazy Person
The very first requirement of a great user experience is actually getting the bytes of that experience to the user before they they get tired and leave.
In this talk we'll start with the basics and get progressively insane. We'll go over several frontend performance best practices, a few anti-patterns, the reasoning behind the rules, and how they've changed over the years. We'll also look at some great tools to help you.
La performance front-end de débutant, à expert, à fou furieux !
La toute première condition nécessaire à une bonne expérience utilisateur est de pouvoir obtenir les octets de cette expérience avant que l'utilisateur ne se lasse et parte.
Nous débuterons cette conférence avec les bases pour progressivement devenir démentiel. Nous aborderons plusieurs des meilleurs pratiques de la performance front-end, quelques anti-patterns à éviter, le raisonnement derrière les règles, et comment ces dernières ont changé au fil des ans. Nous regarderons d'un peu plus près quelques très bon outils qui peuvent vous aider.
RUM isn’t just for page level metrics anymore. Thanks to modern browser updates and new techniques we can collect real user data at the object level, finding slow page components and keeping third parties honest.
In this talk we will show you how to use Resource Timing, User Timing, and other browser tricks to time the most important components in your page. We’ll also share recipes for several of the web’s most popular third parties. This will give you a head start on measuring object level performance on your own site.
Frontend Performance: Beginner to Expert to Crazy PersonPhilip Tellis
Boston Web Performance Meetup, April 22, 2014
The very first requirement of a great user experience is actually getting the bytes of that experience to the user before they they get fed up and leave. In this talk we'll start with the basics and get progressively insane. We'll go over several front-end performance best practices, a few anti-patterns, the reasoning behind the rules, and how they've changed over the years. We'll also look at some great tools to help you.
Schedule: 6:30, pizza
7:15: talk
Frontend Performance: Beginner to Expert to Crazy PersonPhilip Tellis
The very first requirement of a great user experience is actually getting the bytes of that experience to the user before they they get fed up and leave.
In this talk we'll start with the basics and get progressively insane. We'll go over several frontend performance best practices, a few anti-patterns, the reasoning behind the rules, and how they've changed over the years. We'll also look at some great tools to help you.
When we built boomerang at Yahoo!, we planned on it being a generic beaconing system with different payloads attached by plugins. We published an API, and wrote plugins to measure page roundtrip time, network throughput and latency. We received other plugins from Yahoo! to measure IPv6 and DNS latency, and then nothing happened...
Until one day, a certain Mr. Brewer submitted a NavTiming plugin. As it turns out, people were using boomerang in-house, and creating their own plugins that were never published.
In this talk, we’ll go over the basics of writing a boomerang plugin to measure anything you need, some best practices involved with writing plugins, and examples of third party plugins that others have written.
Abusing JavaScript to measure Web Performance, or, "how does boomerang work?"Philip Tellis
While building boomerang, we developed many interesting methods to measure network performance characteristics using JavaScript running in the browser. While the W3C's NavigationTiming API provides access to many performance metrics, there's far more you can get at with some creative tweaking and analysis of how the browser reacts to certain requests.
In this talk, I'll go into the details of how boomerang works to measure network throughput, latency, TCP connect time, DNS time and IPv6 connectivity. I'll also touch upon some of the other performance related browser APIs we use to gather useful information.
http://www.nywebperformance.org/events/78566362/
The Statistics of Web Performance AnalysisPhilip Tellis
If you're interested in measuring real user web performance, you'll find tools like boomerang or episodes quite handy. Some popular web frameworks even have modules that make it easy to add them to your site. However, what does one do once one has collected the data? How do you filter out the noise and get meaningful insights from the data?
In this talk, I'll go over the techniques we've picked up by analyzing millions of datapoints daily. I'll cover some simple rules to filter out invalid data, and the statistics to analyze and make sense of what's left. Do you use the mean, median or mode? What about the geometric mean and standard deviation? How confident are we in the results? And finally, why should we care?
This talk should help you gain useful insights from a histogram, or at the very least point you in the right direction for further analysis.
Abusing JavaScript to Measure Web PerformancePhilip Tellis
While building boomerang, we developed many interesting methods to measure network performance characteristics using JavaScript running in the browser. While the W3C's NavigationTiming API provides access to many performance metrics, there's far more you can get at with some creative tweaking and analysis of how the browser reacts to certain requests.
In this talk, I'll go into the details of how boomerang works to measure network throughput, latency, TCP connect time, DNS time and IPv6 connectivity. I'll also touch upon some of the other performance related browser APIs we use to gather useful information. I will NOT be covering the W3C Navigation Timing API since that's been covered by Alois Reitbauer in a previous Boston Web Perf talk.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Frontend Performance: Beginner to Expert to Crazy PersonPhilip Tellis
There’s no such thing as fast enough. You can always make your website faster. This talk will show you how. The very first requirement of a great user experience is actually getting the bytes of that experience to the user before they they get tired and leave.In this talk we’ll start with the basics and get progressively insane. We’ll go over several frontend performance best practices, a few anti-patterns, the reasoning behind the rules, and how they’ve changed over the years. We’ll also look at some great tools to help you.
Frontend Performance: De débutant à Expert à Fou FurieuxPhilip Tellis
Frontend Performance Beginner to Expert to Crazy Person
The very first requirement of a great user experience is actually getting the bytes of that experience to the user before they they get tired and leave.
In this talk we'll start with the basics and get progressively insane. We'll go over several frontend performance best practices, a few anti-patterns, the reasoning behind the rules, and how they've changed over the years. We'll also look at some great tools to help you.
La performance front-end de débutant, à expert, à fou furieux !
La toute première condition nécessaire à une bonne expérience utilisateur est de pouvoir obtenir les octets de cette expérience avant que l'utilisateur ne se lasse et parte.
Nous débuterons cette conférence avec les bases pour progressivement devenir démentiel. Nous aborderons plusieurs des meilleurs pratiques de la performance front-end, quelques anti-patterns à éviter, le raisonnement derrière les règles, et comment ces dernières ont changé au fil des ans. Nous regarderons d'un peu plus près quelques très bon outils qui peuvent vous aider.
RUM isn’t just for page level metrics anymore. Thanks to modern browser updates and new techniques we can collect real user data at the object level, finding slow page components and keeping third parties honest.
In this talk we will show you how to use Resource Timing, User Timing, and other browser tricks to time the most important components in your page. We’ll also share recipes for several of the web’s most popular third parties. This will give you a head start on measuring object level performance on your own site.
Frontend Performance: Beginner to Expert to Crazy PersonPhilip Tellis
Boston Web Performance Meetup, April 22, 2014
The very first requirement of a great user experience is actually getting the bytes of that experience to the user before they they get fed up and leave. In this talk we'll start with the basics and get progressively insane. We'll go over several front-end performance best practices, a few anti-patterns, the reasoning behind the rules, and how they've changed over the years. We'll also look at some great tools to help you.
Schedule: 6:30, pizza
7:15: talk
Frontend Performance: Beginner to Expert to Crazy PersonPhilip Tellis
The very first requirement of a great user experience is actually getting the bytes of that experience to the user before they they get fed up and leave.
In this talk we'll start with the basics and get progressively insane. We'll go over several frontend performance best practices, a few anti-patterns, the reasoning behind the rules, and how they've changed over the years. We'll also look at some great tools to help you.
When we built boomerang at Yahoo!, we planned on it being a generic beaconing system with different payloads attached by plugins. We published an API, and wrote plugins to measure page roundtrip time, network throughput and latency. We received other plugins from Yahoo! to measure IPv6 and DNS latency, and then nothing happened...
Until one day, a certain Mr. Brewer submitted a NavTiming plugin. As it turns out, people were using boomerang in-house, and creating their own plugins that were never published.
In this talk, we’ll go over the basics of writing a boomerang plugin to measure anything you need, some best practices involved with writing plugins, and examples of third party plugins that others have written.
Abusing JavaScript to measure Web Performance, or, "how does boomerang work?"Philip Tellis
While building boomerang, we developed many interesting methods to measure network performance characteristics using JavaScript running in the browser. While the W3C's NavigationTiming API provides access to many performance metrics, there's far more you can get at with some creative tweaking and analysis of how the browser reacts to certain requests.
In this talk, I'll go into the details of how boomerang works to measure network throughput, latency, TCP connect time, DNS time and IPv6 connectivity. I'll also touch upon some of the other performance related browser APIs we use to gather useful information.
http://www.nywebperformance.org/events/78566362/
The Statistics of Web Performance AnalysisPhilip Tellis
If you're interested in measuring real user web performance, you'll find tools like boomerang or episodes quite handy. Some popular web frameworks even have modules that make it easy to add them to your site. However, what does one do once one has collected the data? How do you filter out the noise and get meaningful insights from the data?
In this talk, I'll go over the techniques we've picked up by analyzing millions of datapoints daily. I'll cover some simple rules to filter out invalid data, and the statistics to analyze and make sense of what's left. Do you use the mean, median or mode? What about the geometric mean and standard deviation? How confident are we in the results? And finally, why should we care?
This talk should help you gain useful insights from a histogram, or at the very least point you in the right direction for further analysis.
Abusing JavaScript to Measure Web PerformancePhilip Tellis
While building boomerang, we developed many interesting methods to measure network performance characteristics using JavaScript running in the browser. While the W3C's NavigationTiming API provides access to many performance metrics, there's far more you can get at with some creative tweaking and analysis of how the browser reacts to certain requests.
In this talk, I'll go into the details of how boomerang works to measure network throughput, latency, TCP connect time, DNS time and IPv6 connectivity. I'll also touch upon some of the other performance related browser APIs we use to gather useful information. I will NOT be covering the W3C Navigation Timing API since that's been covered by Alois Reitbauer in a previous Boston Web Perf talk.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
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Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024
Fallback Messaging
1. Fallback Messaging
Philip Tellis / philip@bluesmoon.info
Yahoo!
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
2. $ whoami
Philip Tellis
philip@bluesmoon.info
@bluesmoon
yahoo
geek
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
3. How do you chat?
Which IM programs do you use?
How many accounts on each?
Do you communicate with the same people over multiple
services?
How often do you use email/SMS to communicate with
these people?
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
4. Does the server decide whether you can chat or not?
How often has a service gone down for maintenance while
you’re in a conversation?
What happens to your conversation?
What happens to your train of thought?
What happens to logs of the conversation – if any?
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
5. Do you know your friends by their names or their handles?
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
6. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 1
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
Start Y!M, continue conversation
Net goes down, only email working
Send email/SMS saying that we can’t chat anymore
Philip combines all the logs to post to the website
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
7. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 1
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
Start Y!M, continue conversation
Net goes down, only email working
Send email/SMS saying that we can’t chat anymore
Philip combines all the logs to post to the website
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
8. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 1
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
Start Y!M, continue conversation
Net goes down, only email working
Send email/SMS saying that we can’t chat anymore
Philip combines all the logs to post to the website
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
9. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 1
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
Start Y!M, continue conversation
Net goes down, only email working
Send email/SMS saying that we can’t chat anymore
Philip combines all the logs to post to the website
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
10. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 1
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
Start Y!M, continue conversation
Net goes down, only email working
Send email/SMS saying that we can’t chat anymore
Philip combines all the logs to post to the website
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
11. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 1
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
Start Y!M, continue conversation
Net goes down, only email working
Send email/SMS saying that we can’t chat anymore
Philip combines all the logs to post to the website
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
12. The idea behind fallback messaging
People care about people, not protocols
Conversations should not be service dependent
Conversation should be continuous even if the service
changes
Person-person messaging approaches pc-pc messaging
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
13. So what does fallback messaging do?
Automatically pick a protocol to use for messaging
Automatically switch protocols if one goes down without
worrying the user
A single log file irrespective of protocol
Represent a person as a single entity rather than a bunch
of different handles
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
14. What’s needed?
A single client that talks multiple protocols
The client should group different accounts of a contact into
a single entity
The client should be able to switch between accounts
Perhaps an ability to prioritise the order of fallback
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
15. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 2
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
The client switches to Y!M
Net goes down, only email working
Client switches to email/sms
User is notified that he’s now in async mode
The client has a combined log of everything communicated
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
16. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 2
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
The client switches to Y!M
Net goes down, only email working
Client switches to email/sms
User is notified that he’s now in async mode
The client has a combined log of everything communicated
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
17. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 2
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
The client switches to Y!M
Net goes down, only email working
Client switches to email/sms
User is notified that he’s now in async mode
The client has a combined log of everything communicated
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
18. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 2
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
The client switches to Y!M
Net goes down, only email working
Client switches to email/sms
User is notified that he’s now in async mode
The client has a combined log of everything communicated
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
19. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 2
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
The client switches to Y!M
Net goes down, only email working
Client switches to email/sms
User is notified that he’s now in async mode
The client has a combined log of everything communicated
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
20. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 2
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
The client switches to Y!M
Net goes down, only email working
Client switches to email/sms
User is notified that he’s now in async mode
The client has a combined log of everything communicated
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
21. Act 1, Scene 1, Take 2
Philip and Manish are chatting on MSN about their project
MSN server goes down
The client switches to Y!M
Net goes down, only email working
Client switches to email/sms
User is notified that he’s now in async mode
The client has a combined log of everything communicated
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
22. Can we do this today?
FOSS clients like gaim and ayttm can do it
Still needs some work
FOSS clients have the edge
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
23. Do we really need it?
Probably in very few situations, but we sure want it :P
Data transfer over IM is an application
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging
24. The future of IM
Everyone’s talking about IM interoperability
Sending structured data and not just human readable
conversations over IM
IM transports as a commodity with value added services
above it
Linux Bangalore 2004 / 2004-12-02 Fallback Messaging