Web Based IM Development

uvme are aiming to make the implementation of the new web version of the uvme Instant Messenger on the games site as painless as possible and in order to do this the developers have been very busy.

How busy? Well to put it to context this version of the web IM has had 46 different versions of it built with over 250 bugs tracked and fixed over the last few weeks. During this last week of the internal testing that has ramped up and here is just a short list of things we have been working on as well:

    * Debug window minimized by default - to make it easier to do testing
    * Contact list expanded by default
    * Double contacts on the list
    * Empty end of line in the new chat window
    * System slowdown when there are many opened chat windows
    * Many reports about the system slow down (Windows + IE) with the IM client active
    * New chat window appears on top of an old chat window
    * The chat window with “Disconnected” text cannot be closed
    * You can open multiple chat windows to the same user this will cause some confusion
    * The IM server opens huge number of database connections which causes resources drain
    * Simplified initial configuration for user account
    * Simplified gateway configuration
    * Client skinning
    * Groups sorting in client
    * Branding details
    * Database account details
    * Database game list details
    * Database game challenge details
    * Add ‘asking status’ checkbox in Add Contact dialog
    * Event notification
    * “Contact is writing a message” notification
    * Chat window size change
    * Installer for the uvme standalone client
    * Change the configuration file/directory name
    * Storing on the server side Bosh session state
    * Protocol for exchanging Bosh state between a client and the server
    * Implementation of the protocol #94 in the server
    * Show offline contacts for a selected group only
    * Protocol for exchanging chat logs between a client and the server
    * Review contact ordering in the user roster
    * Client tries to reconnect on terminate from the server

It goes to show how much has gone into delivering the IM service to our uvme business!