Open Source Messaging Application Development - Building and Extending Gaim

*Author is the maintainer of Gaim; and provides excellent insight into the application *Practice building and extending Gaim, while learning GTK toolkit and network protocols
*Tutorials are based on OS Gaim project: the #1 Sourceforge project out of 86,116 present on Sourceforge
*In one 7 day period (from 8/23/04-8/30/04), it was downloaded nearly 55,000 times. Typing 'gaim' into google brings up over 900,000 hits


Sean Egan is employed by Google on the Google Talk team, where he is working to improve compatibility with Gaim and other open-source messaging applications.