Authenticating Ejabberd against a Ruby On Rails database
Notifixious just switched to the EJabberd server for its XMPP capabilities. One of the key point in this migration was the ability to authenticate users with an external script. I won’t go into details here, but this a wonderful thing for Notifixious! Anyway, the ejabberd website gives a certain number of scripts to authenticate users against external databases/architecture. Notifixious is using Ruby On Rails. There was no script. We made it (or at least, one… that probably needs improvment).
Keep the risk-taking spirit
The financial world is collapsing and several start-up are already taking measures to cope with the crisis. I am taking a few days of, outside of California and it’s a great time to think a little bit about it. I brought with me some books and among them “Once you’re good, twice you’re lucky” by Sarah Lacy. I only read the first few chapters so far, but the timing is interesting, since it deals with the “nuclear winter” after the bubble burst! Read the rest of this entry »
