Of course I wasn't smart enough to figure this out on my own. The good folks at Openfire built a server that you can host locally. It's super easy to set up, takes only a few minutes. Luckily, I don't have to explain a step by step because the Toon Town Blog covered it so nicely. Following Nathan's instruction was a breeze!
And yes, you can do this already using a jabber server that uses the MSN transport but you have to deal with server down time, putting your login info out on someone's server in another country and overall confusion on how to get it set up. Openfire makes all of that go away, give it a shot!
One last thing, you won't be able to take advantage of iChat video chat (or some of the other advanced iChat features) with your MSN buddies but really not a show stopper for me.
I've been terribly annoyed with an issue with Eclipse / CFEclipse lately where line numbers are not showing up by default. Oh, and the option to enable them in the preferences is not there either. This becomes a problem when, you know, you're trying to work. ;-) I found a quick and dirty solution to enable line numbers.
Eclipse has been mean to me today. I'm working on a .cfm template that's around 1300 lines. Doing simple search/replace brings beach ball madness.
Rebuilding a machine or reloading the operating system is a major pain. I thought I'd detail a few things I did in my latest rebuild. There's a few helpful tips along with a few helpful programs. Check it out.
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