If you are like me, every time you go to install a new perl module you realize the system doesn’t have command line history support and have to go hunting for the correct module to install.

A Little Bit Of History

This option, provided you have Term::ReadLine::Perl or Term::ReadLine::Gnu installed, will give your CPAN command line interface history support. It’s questions deal with the location of the histfile and how many lines it should save. I elected to add the histfile to the /usr/local/share/cpan directory I chose earlier, and kept the default 100 lines, figuring that this is more than enough command history for CPAN to remember.

Apache Vysper

Apache Vysper aims to be a modular, full featured XMPP (Jabber) server.

More details on Vysper in their documentation.

There are already some larger XEPs as modules available, most notably

• Multi User Chat (XEP0045) and
• Publish/Subscribe (XEP0060)
• BOSH (XEP0124, XEP0206)

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This was the winner of the 2011 Yahoo HackU contest at University of Washington.

The official site can be found here.

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