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iChat (Maybe…)

I’ve been using iChat lately, but I’m still not convinced I like it…

I was a long time user of Fire, until I switched to Adium, which I still really like, so why mess with iChat? Video…

Yup, I’ve been toying with video chat, and since Adium can’t do that, iChat is what I’ve been using, and it works great for video, but as an IM client, it is a bit lacking…

iChat doesn’t do Yahoo! or MSN Messenger (I don’t use MSN, but some people do) but it does do Jabber/XMPP and handles Bonjour connections, which is nice.

You can enhance iChat a bit with Chax, and I’ve also added growliChat as well. They help a bit, but for a Mac OS X client, I still like Adium, but the chances of Adium doing video any time soon are pretty damn slim.

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Meetup, or Not?

We’ve been discussing whether or not the Milwaukee Web Design Meetup should continue to use Meetup.com or venture off onto our own…

I’m convinced we could replace the web tools that Meetup provides, the main issue in my mind is if people will be able to find us, since we won’t really be a “Meetup” group any more. I think with the power of the web (and blogs!) we can do it.

We’ll be meeting in November at Z2 Marketing + Design and I’m hoping at that point we can make a decision about it. If you’ve got comments about this, discuss it at Meetup.com or feel free to leave a comment here…

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OpenLaszlo

OpenLaszlo… Finally, a legitimate use for Tomcat…

I was just yesterday I talked about my Flash issues, and later that night at the October Milwaukee Web Design Meetup our pal Justin did a demo of OpenLaszlo.

I had heard of OpenLaszlo before, but didn’t quite get what it was. Luckily a quick demo and a few questions was all it took to see that it could be a useful tool.

By the way, the October Meetup was at C2, but the November Meetup will be at Z2. (How’s that for confusing?)

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BarCampMilwaukee: I Missed the Flash

Post author By Pete Prodoehl
Post date 2006-10-12

One of the coolest things that happened at BarCampMilwaukee was that, during the introductions, Dustin Dupree said he wasn’t leading any sessions, but if anyone wanted to know about Flash, they should ask him. Someone yelled out “Lead a session!” and sure enough, a session on Flash happened later, led by Dustin. I’m glad that Dustin felt like embracing the idea of “you are an expert at your own experience” and sharing what he knows about Flash. To me, this is the spirit of BarCamp, and I was glad to see it happen.

I was sorry I missed that session (Scott seemed to enjoy it) because people keep telling me that there are open-source tools for Flash, but every time I dig through osflash.org I just get confused and can’t seem to find any sort of Mac OS X development tools that look appealing to me.