Daniel Noll Application 2006

My name is Daniel Noll and I'm reapplying for JSF membership.

About me
I'm a 27 year old software developer with my paid job developing computer forensics software.

The field of forensics is actually one in which instant messaging is an extremely important topic, although the demand is really only starting to show this year. I guess my involvement in the field is largely responsible for my paranoia regarding encryption and other forms of privacy. :-)

Recent Past

 * In the past twelve months, my original server, jabber.zim.net.au, fell due to the system being neglected by my co-admin, who happened to own the domain name.

Current

 * I became co-admin of Jabber Australia, for which I was already a committee member, and I handle some of the user support requests there.


 * I've contributed patches to the Typo project to repair their broken Jabber notification and am still fighting to get them committed.


 * I've been working on ActionMessenger, a convenience library for using Jabber and potentially other messaging functionality from Ruby on Rails.

Future

 * I have been working on plans for a brand new Jabber service of my own, the goal being for small scale, mass virtual hosting (each user gets their own domain, and going for an average of only a couple of users per domain.)

Why I like Jabber
Mainly because it is the only protocol which developers can develop to, and not have to worry about it changing underfoot in a year's time. But also because it puts the control of instant messaging back in the hands of the people who use it. No big company should be dominating the field of communication (although we still have a way to go with wrestling the Internet access out of the hands of the major telcos. :-))