Crow

A budding rich media chat client for xmpp/muc.

Project Layout

• Rakefile - the rake build file
• build/ - where the xul app gets assembled, can be removed anytime
• lib - 3rd party libs
• lib/css
• lib/javascript
• resources/ - for dist and other fun
• src/ - the source
• src/haml - the haml files that will be html
• src/coffee - the coffee script files that will be javascript
• src/scss - the scss files that will be stylesheets
• src/xul - the xul application

To run Crow,

./go.sh

Terms

account -> jid/host/passwd info session -> xmpp session, has one account friend -> jid + meta info conversation -> a collection of messages with a jid message -> a specific xmpp stanza, aka a blob of text/html

Technology

ruby / rake / haml / sass / javascript / coffee / jquery / xulrunner / git / functional programming / html / css / xml / xmpp

Credits

Borrows from / uses the following projects:

• https://github.com/vpj/xmpp-js
• http://haml-lang.com/
• http://sass-lang.com/
• http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
• firebug lite
• http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/

Debugging

We are using firebug lite for quick easy debugging. We load firebug lite in to an iframe in the main html file. To access the main code you need to use window.parent.document. I have added a crow jQuery object to short hand this.

We also have lots of logging.