Updated Pidgin Plugin

<p>We just uploaded an updated version of our plugin for the Windows Pidgin client. You can find it in the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/libraryh3lp/downloads/list">Downloads</a> section of the wiki. This version corrects an issue with the first release of the plugin where Pidgin crashes when the patron sends an empty line before a librarian has responded to a new, incoming the chat. The <a href="http://libraryh3lp.blogspot.com/2008/05/plugin-for-pidgin.html">original plugin features</a> are unchanged at this time, but in a month or so, we'll be releasing some new features in another version of this plugin.<br /><br />This might be a good place to mention one of the design goals we had when providing customized client features. Plugins are relatively easy to install and update on large numbers of computers; systems administrators can do things like push them out using a batch file called during a login script, even if they don't have fancy software deployment tools at their disposal. This is a lot easier than fully installing a complete client across goodness-knows-how-many-computers, each time features are updated. So, one of our goals was to limit customization of locally-installed clients to plugins if at all possible.<br /><br />Eric is working hard on a fully web-based client for librarians. We hope to release that in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned!</p>

We just uploaded an updated version of our plugin for the Windows Pidgin client. You can find it in the Downloads section of the wiki. Th...