“Let's build it all again … now with bunnies!”
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:date: 2011-10-03T13:31:15
:category: computer
:tags: xmpp, reinvent wheel, websockets

I was reading `a blogpost about WebSocket and NAT and all this stuff`_
and I cannot stop thinking “Do we have to really `reinvent the wheel`_
all the time?” Of course, when Apple et al. reinvent_ `the wheel`_, it
is probably a deliberate attempt to lock in clueless customers. But when
open communities `do it`_? And if you don’t know how to do all that
stuff over secure and reliable connection, then `it all has been done`_
(more information, example_). Oh well.

.. _`a blogpost about WebSocket and NAT and all this stuff`:
    http://code-bear.com/bearlog/2011/10/02/websockets-the-bell-bottoms-of-the-web/
.. _`reinvent the wheel`:
    http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/09/18/WS-Oppo
.. _reinvent:
    http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/features.html#imessage
.. _`the wheel`:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichat
.. _`do it`:
    http://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/
.. _`it all has been done`:
    http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/doc/book/chapter.tubes.html
.. _example:
    https://github.com/zhangsen/tp-sudoku-demo