Labnotes

I wish, but more likely this is a measure of the reported encoding of Web pages based on their HTTP headers.  And that would not be surprising.  Let’s be real, it’s just a header that we all copy over and over just because it seems like the right thing to do.  And most modern frameworks put it there for you, even when you’re serving ASCII text from a latin1 encoded database table. Still, A for effort.

There you go.

require 'rubygems'
require 'xmpp4r'
require 'xmpp4r/roster'

puts 'Connecting ...'
client = Jabber::Client.new(ARGV[0]).connect(’talk.google.com’)
client.auth(ARGV[1])
puts ‘Receiving’
roster = Jabber::Roster::Helper.new(client)
roster.add_presence_callback do |roster_item, old_presence, new_presence|
  if new_presence
    from = roster_item.iname || “#{new_presence.from.node}@#{new_presence.from.domain}”
    if new_presence.status
      puts “#{from}: #{new_presence.status}”
    end
  end
end
client.send(Jabber::Presence.new)
Thread.stop
client.close

Run from the command line:

$ ruby distwit.rb <jabber_id> <password>
Connecting …
Receiving
Andre Lewis: Away
Matthieu Riou: Enjoying a JavaOne couch
Matthieu Riou: Entertaining Assaf
Alexis Midon: hacking in a couch @community-one 

Now just wait for your friends to status away using their IM client.

And don’t forget, please yo-yo the rrm.