La Vita è Bella

The project I'm working on used a 3rd party component, and it's not open source.

QA had found a defect today: in some case my program will hang for a long time. So I added many debug log into the position that may hang, but didn't find the defect.

So I can only add debug log between nearly every statements, and finally, I've found the hung statement: a function to dump some data onto hard disc, from the 3rd party component.

Sometimes, this statement will hang for 5 minutes (no more, no less, just 5 minutes), and then return SUCCESS.

I don't know why it hangs, there's enough spaces, and it has the privilege to write. It seems that 5 minutes is a time-out, but after 5 minutes, it return SUCCESS!

If I have the source of the 3rd party component, maybe I can fix it. But now, I can only leave this defect there, to wait the stupid 5 minutes.

We need open source, seriously.

I've bought a Treo 650 half a month ago (photo), but there's no free good-to-use Jabber clients (Chatopus is more or less good, but not perfect, and it's a shareware with $16.95). So I think maybe I can develop a open-source Jabber client for PalmOS.

I'll call it "Thishit" :) , and planning to implement the following features:

1. Text chat, of course
2. Gtalk support
3. Good transports support
4. Other services support (JUD, conference, etc.)
5. Message history with offline reading and/or exporting to memo
6. i18n support
7. Multi accounts at the same time
8. SSL support
9. Background running
10. Customizable status message
11. Smileys support, if possible
12. Avater support, if possible