blog » September 26, 2008/Talk to me

I have created a new project, which I have dubbed “Talk-to-me”, which is a web-based instant messaging client designed for the sole purpose of enabling website visitors to, well, talk to me via my Jabber account. Well, not to me, per se. I'm not conceited enough to think that anyone would want to talk to me... But perhaps there are others out there who are.

In fact, the main reason that I wrote it was that it could be one half of a live chat system for companies. With a correct back end, it could be used to allow website visitors to chat with sales/support/etc. staff. Without going into too many details, the backend would be a double-headed bot, where the forward-facing end would talk to the web client, and the backward-facing end would ... do something, which would depend on how you want the system set up, to distribute the chat requests between staff. Probably the best way would be to use MUC somehow, so that multiple staff members could talk to the same client. But I won't go into much detail, because for one thing, there are so many ways to do it, and, for another thing, I'd much rather code it than to write about it.

(I've been (re-)reading The Chronicles of Narnia, and I think it's affected my writing style a bit. Well, as much as Lewis can affect your writing style when you're talking about coding...)