Ok maybe not. I've been quiet for a bit as I've adjusted to my new job and various other projects. Plus... my father passed away a little over a week ago... While I miss him, I am glad he is no longer struggling with his failing body. Anyway, the point of me bringing this up is, I've been silent because I've been involved in a number of things.

I'm in charge of a number of projects nowadays. I figured I'd take a moment to go through some of those, throw out some kudos, and let folk know how things are coming along.

Kraken
Kraken, the new life of the Openfire IM Gateway plugin, has been coming along. I've added Facebook, MySpace, and SameTime support to it, though those are still works in progress. (with thanks to the SIP Communicator folk, Pidgin, and the GSoC folk who worked on Facebook support for SIP C.) One of my "primary-ish" goals coming up soon is that I want to make it work with more than just Openfire. I've been working up the details of that in my head. Might be a bigger undertaking ... not sure ... but I think it'll be worth the effort. Kraken's first actual release was a little while ago to fix some budding MSN issues.

jQQl
There's a new QQ java API, jQQl, that Kraken is using that is primarily a port of LumaQQ with english docs, stripping out the client part, and fixes to make it functional again. Kraken uses it for QQ support. Many thanks to the LumaQQ folk for the project, even if it does appear to have been abandoned! =)

jMySpaceIMl
There's also a new MySpaceIM library for Java. It's not particularly complete yet but it's coming along. Many thanks to Version 2 Software for getting this started, along with Srinivasan, for getting this started before I took it over.

OpenYMSG
OpenYMSG was moved to hosted on SourceForge and is thriving there as a couple of talented developers have joined up. It had it's first release the other day.

JML
JML is an MSN messenger java API, which has been around a while and also which I took over a long time ago. It's also been thriving under the addition of a new developer!

jOTR
I actually created a project that was intended to be a java OTR library API, jOTR. The problem is, I no longer work on an XMPP client and have no use for this, so absolutely no development has been done on it. If anyone is interested in picking up the reigns and running with it, please let me know and I'd be happy to hand it off to you or just add you as a developer if you'd prefer.

Anyway. As you can probably see I've been involved in a lot of stuff. I've been working a lot with Drupal lately and wrote a module for it as well. I actually had someone express interest in my oldest XMPP related child, JWGC. =D Course that hasn't worked with recent Jabber servers in ages but still cool to see. Someday I hope to get the C programming bug and play with that a bit more.

Amusingly enough, I was all prepared to put up some projects for the XMPP foundation GSoC group this year and it turns out they're not doing it. ;D No worries, just thought it was funny on my timing.

So anyway, that's been Daniel's life lately. I've also been playing a lot of Phantasy Star Online - Blue Burst on the schtserv.com servers. =D Just throwing that plug in there. lol