Jaykul from huddledmasses.org has just released the first public version of his new XMPP utility for PowerShell called PoshXmpp.  As I mentioned the other day, there is some interest lately in combining XMPP with PowerShell.  With Jaykul’s tools, you now have a basic Jabber client for your Windows command-line.  But more than that is the possibilities it raises for stuff like the example below.  (In PowerShell terms, PoshXmpp is a “snapin” which is a collection of “cmdlets”.)

Connect-Chat — connect to MUC chats: try “PowerShell%irc.freenode.net@irc.im.flosoft.biz” to connect to the PowerShell IRC channel. NOTE: messages from these come the same way as regular chat messages… you have to Receive-Message to see anything. You could Receive-Message -Loop > log.txt ….

The homepage is here, and the code is here (requires PowerShell to be installed first).