Joseph Piché » irc http://jpiche.com Web development professional with expertise in PHP, MySQL query optimization, Ajax, and XHTML Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:04:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 IRC Clients http://jpiche.com/2009/11/irc-clients/ http://jpiche.com/2009/11/irc-clients/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:03:06 +0000 Joseph Piché http://jpiche.com/?p=342 I often think that as a professional programmer, the majority of the time spent “coding” an application (for web or desktop) is simply finding the best way to do something. That may be getting a page to display the same in IE6 and chrome using universal CSS and without writing exceptions using never-official specifications for HTML, or it may be optimizing a query. Well, when official documentation fails me, I resort to IRC.

I’ve struggled for a while looking for the best client to use. I’ve sampled irssi, Pidgin, Empathy, XChat, xchat-gnome, along with a bunch of Qt clients. And Just to help out anyone, the ubuntu xchat package is the one to use. Ubuntu has an xchat-gnome package, but it’s not the same. XChat does everything, and does it well.

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