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[caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“471” caption=“Curl”][/caption] How to call soap web services from a unix shell? it is easy with curl and, optionally, xsltproc ! Read the tutorial soap requests with curl ! Comments: Alias Canterbury - Jul 5, 2010Thanks for posting this tutorial! I really appreciate it, considering that a lot of other websites posted vaguely similar instructions but I couldn’t get them to work. Thanks for such a nice post....

Ebot is a opensource and scalable web crawler written on top of Erlang, a NOSQL database (Apache CouchDB or Riak), RabbitMQ, Mochiweb, Webmachine, .. See my Erlang info page for more details.

“Erlang-based RabbitMQ was acquired today by SpringSource, which is owned by VMWare” “RabbitMQ is a complete and highly reliable enterprise messaging system based on the emerging AMQP standard. It is licensed under the open source Mozilla Public License and has a platform-neutral distribution, plus platform-specific packages and bundles for easy installation.” Sponsors of AMQP are: Bank of America, N.A., Barclays Bank PLC, Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Börse Systems, Envoy Technologies Inc....

After Google with GTalk (~ 180 million users) , now also Facebook (> 400 million users ) has switched its chat protocol to Jabber/XMPP ( pdf introduction). Now you need simply a generic xmpp client (like Adium, iChat, Miranda, Pidgin) and configure Facebook, Gtalk,.. XMPP is now the de facto the Standard protocol for Instant Messaging We should not use anymore chat systems/operators that use proprietary standards like Skype, MS Messanger and Communicator, ....