Tag Archives: Nuntium
Using xmpp for mocking SMS channel in Nuntium
For those of you not familiar with it, Nuntium is an open-source tool we developed together with InSTEDD for easily building applications that rely on SMS for communication. Even though several other kinds of channels are supported, such as email or twitter, text messaging has been one of its most important features. A common scenario … more
Nuntium: exponential backoff and new xmpp library
This week we’ve updated nuntium to version 2.8, yay! Aside from some minor bug fixes, nuntium now implements an exponential backoff strategy when a message delivery fails. Previously, it worked like this: A message failed to be delivered. If the cause was the message itself (for example it contains invalid data), it was discarded. If … more
Building an application to track expenses in one hour using GeoChat
Whenever one of our team member travels to another country we tell her to track expenses like food, transportation and accomodation so that later that money can be refunded. Each of us does it in a different way: we write it in a notes application in a cellphone, or in a text file in our … more