Archive of Real-time web
Limiting real time data
When you are loading a web site, or even most fairly advanced RIAs, you are requesting data and getting a response – an HTML page, SWF file, some JSON or XML data etc. How quickly that data is returned to you isn’t generally a critical factor other than improving the…
Read MoreGuaranteed Messaging – Don’t believe it
Guaranteed messaging is something that I’ve covered before from a Comet perspective. It is still mentioned a lot when talking about messaging technology. People using the technology want to know that if they send a message that it will be received at the other end. The problem is they want…
Read MoreThe Rumours of Comet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Joe Armstrong in a recent blog post (which made it to reddit) announces the coronation of HTML 5 websockets now that Google has added them to Chrome. He’s also pleased to relegate Comet, long polling and its friends to the grave. This confuses comet with the techniques used to achieve…
Read MoreHow to create a real-time JavaFX application
At Caplin we spend a lot of time talking about the real-time web and more specifically the growing trend for real time rich internet applications, or RTRIAs. One of the key advantages of our Caplin Xaqua offering is that it allows our customers to stream live data into a variety…
Read MoreHow real-time does real-time have to be?
This post was originally posted on my personal blog on 09/12/2009. Last night, just over 12 hours ago, I attended the Gary Vaynerchuk Crush It event organised by Sprouter in London. I’ve already read Crush It and seen a lot of Gary online so I wondered if he would give…
Read MoreDomain Driven Design: Approaches to Streaming
In Sockets, Messages and the Pub Sub Paradigm: Approaches to Streaming I discussed various techniques involved in streaming data to a browser. There are many products available making use of these techniques to solve a broad variety of problems, but due to their unfocussed target user base they all leave…
Read MoreSockets, Messages and the Pub Sub Paradigm: Approaches to Streaming
There are many products and projects out there that allow you to stream data to clients from a server, and most letting you send data back to a server too. There are various approaches that have been taken to achieve this which will be explored in this article. In a…
Read MoreGetting realtime data into Excel
Starting with Excel 2002, Microsoft have included the RTD interface which allows Excel to poll for data. Polling seems to be a much more efficient way of getting data into Excel than the classic approach which is pushing – it’s not uncommon to find yourself pushing when Excel isn’t ready…
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