So I turned on Pownce IM Notifications last week. Things are working much better.

I am going to San Francisco tomorrow for the Pownce Anniversary Party, I am very very excited.

Hopefully get to meet a few more developers who work the API as well.

Anyways, Yeah, Im still alive :)

I turned PownceIM notifications off last night due to the poor performance of pownce.com.

Im not sure if I am the one causing it with the script pulling updates from Pownce, but I figured It needed to be done to take some load off Pownce until they can figure out what the problem is.

If this annoys anyone I'm truly sorry, but the performance is also affecting PownceIM and I'd like them to resolve the issue just as soon as anyone else.

I've had this working for awhile, just havnt had time to announce its use.

PownceIM now with jabber Support.

Add pownceim@gmail.com to you contacts to get started.

NOTE: Jabber does not support notifications yet. The issue is that I cannot specify HTML, so im working on the formatting of notifications.

I was working on a project for XML Parsing.
I came across instances where my elements were completely missing.

After further Digging into the issue, I found out, that when placing tags inside of an element with text, SimpleXML (and dom Document) ignore the added tags, and the text within.

Heres an example.

-----------ok.xml-----------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Document>
<Article>
<Title pagenum="84" docname="Career Path mar 08">Is Your Face on Facebook? </Title>

PownceAIM received an update today.

This includes better mechanisms for determining whether Pownce is loading slow for the end user. And if it is acting up, notifications will slow down as to be nice with Pownce :)

And the ability to send Notes easier and quicker.

These new abilities should allow your PownceAIM experience to be a lot smoother.

Anyways, happy Pownceing!