The Coccinella project is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of Coccinella 0.96.4.1, a free and open-source cross-platform chat client with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. This version focuses on bug fixes and small polishments.

Polishments include:

The following screencast is the third and last Coccinella screencast for this year. This tutorial instructs you how to add an AIM contact or buddy in Coccinella to chat with. Stay tuned for more screencasts next year and a happy New Year!

Add AIM Contact

Update: VistaPages has been sold to Millennium Data Systems (HostMDS).

From Evil to Hell

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Less than a fortnight ago, I wrote about evil. This week, I write about hell and how Harvard's insights will help you to avoid a customer hell.

But first I want to add to last week's evil story that I was informed by a reliable source that 'Google would have preferred XMPP Federation, but that AOL was only willing to agree to a multiprotocol approach'.

This is no traditional review. Information is made as generally applicable as possible so that you can perfectly read this review without having any interest in a VistaPages review or whatever web host review. Hence, you may call this a 'tutorial review' or whatever you prefer.

The Coccinella project is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of Coccinella 0.96.4, an 8 years young free and open-source cross-platform chat client with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. Coccinella 0.96.4 takes presence experience to new heights with groundbreaking productivity enhancing innovations in the presence area.

The release of Coccinella 0.96.4 is scheduled for next week. So, this is your chance to report the bugs you found (in 0.96.2 or 0.96.3, the daily development snapshot). Also, you can still send in your updated or new translation:

Sorry for the short notice. Things are chaotic as always. This time we have a "daily" build system, so you may contribute at any time and get your "own" version for breakfast.