This is serious people. We can talk all we want about our developing country, India. But someone needs to act to make that happen. And clearly, the one's with the power to do something are incompetent, immoral, corrupted criminals.
Do read this for further details: http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/07/19/data-on-criminals-in-the-indian-parliament/
Do read this for further details: http://www.deeshaa.org/2008/07/19/data-on-criminals-in-the-indian-parliament/
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Their mandate is to maintain a market for mortgages - buying loans from banks, repackaging them as bonds, and selling those securities to investors with a guarantee that they will be paid.- CNN
I am not eco wiz but this right here just doesn't sound right. This pretty much sums up how, why and now of the current housing market and greases up the wheels of the roller coaster ride to follow soon. hold on to your pants !!
A side note before we start, I think the best way to earn money and still have your software product open sourced is to have no documentation or very little documentation of how it works. That seems to be case with process one, the company behind ejabberd. To be fair, I am just being a bit harsh. If something is not documented in the official documentation, there is always forums and online chatrooms you can join in and if you are patient enough someone will help you. But I think after spending good enough time with ejabberd setup and writing a custom module for it, I will say the documentation is definetly scant. Also, I don't understand why for any question I have about some part of the ejabberd server, it gets answered by someone starting with "look at the source code.....". What if I don't know how to read Erlang? What if I am just plain dumb? Its not that these things are difficult to do but they do cause a lot of waste of developer's time and even worse cause frustation (coming from personal experience).
anyways, so this is how you setup mod_xmlrpc on ejabberd. First, this module does not come packaged with the ejabberd installation. So you need to download it and build it yourself (no big deal though). svn check out the community contributed modules as per the instructions here. Before you can build the module you will also need to download and build xmlrpc app for erlang which is patched to work with ejabberd (I dont know what that means). Also get xmerl app which you will already have if you have installed Erlang/OTP. The thing with xmerl app or any other app which comes packaged with OTP is that there is no other way to download the app other than installing the whole of the OTP system. You cannot just download xmerl app if you want to. Atleast, I could not find a way to do it. This also means that you have to very careful which version of OTP you download. Ejabberd installation includes Erlang runtime. Thus files packaged with the latest OTP compiled for the latest erl VM may not work with erl VM in ejabberd. For my setup, ejabberd 2.0 comes with Erlang shell 5.5.5 which means I had to install OTP R11B-5.
now that you have all the required files, start off.
- build mod_xmlrpc: run build.sh and you should have
- I generally deploy all the module beam files in
- copy xmerl app folder from you OTP installation (
- build xmlrpc: run
- Finally, update
That should do it for you. By default, the rpc service runs on 4560 port which can be changed if needed.
anyways, so this is how you setup mod_xmlrpc on ejabberd. First, this module does not come packaged with the ejabberd installation. So you need to download it and build it yourself (no big deal though). svn check out the community contributed modules as per the instructions here. Before you can build the module you will also need to download and build xmlrpc app for erlang which is patched to work with ejabberd (I dont know what that means). Also get xmerl app which you will already have if you have installed Erlang/OTP. The thing with xmerl app or any other app which comes packaged with OTP is that there is no other way to download the app other than installing the whole of the OTP system. You cannot just download xmerl app if you want to. Atleast, I could not find a way to do it. This also means that you have to very careful which version of OTP you download. Ejabberd installation includes Erlang runtime. Thus files packaged with the latest OTP compiled for the latest erl VM may not work with erl VM in ejabberd. For my setup, ejabberd 2.0 comes with Erlang shell 5.5.5 which means I had to install OTP R11B-5.
now that you have all the required files, start off.
- build mod_xmlrpc: run build.sh and you should have
mod_xmlrpc.beam file in ebin directory.- I generally deploy all the module beam files in
<ejabberdhome>\lib\ejabberd-2.0.1\ebin. - copy xmerl app folder from you OTP installation (
erlx.x.x\lib\xmerl-x.x.x)to <ejabberdhome>\lib directory- build xmlrpc: run
build.sh and you should have a bunch of .beam files in ebin directory. Create directory for xmlrpc app in <ejabberdhome>\lib and copy the ebin directory to this folder.- Finally, update
ejabberd.cfg file to include the mod_xmlrpc entry.That should do it for you. By default, the rpc service runs on 4560 port which can be changed if needed.
