Poke around GAIM

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yes, a new hobby - gonna start now to learn and to start to poke around gaim.

got myself the nice book from Sean, the maintainer of GAIM project. Reading it now (still), and have already tried out his hello world plugin example (with minor modification, since the example does not work with the current gaim source 1.5.0). It is pretty exciting, since i am lost in C when i look at the source codes :) but nevertheless, it is not that scary after all. after poking around for a 15 minutes, i've got it running.

 

below is a list of resources/links i think might be helpful. hopefully they would be of use to you too.
1. AutoProfile: Dynamic Profile Manager Plugin for GAIM: http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~casey/autoprofile/documentation.php
2. 

 

some other links:
1. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1872058,00.asp