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 ...Read More
Category: Real-time web
Guaranteed 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 ...Read More
The 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 ...Read More
How 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 ...Read More
How 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 ...Read More
Domain 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 ...Read More
Sockets, 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 ...Read More
Getting 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 ...Read More
What is the ‘real-time web’?
The phrase "real-time web" has been streaming its way around the Internet for a while now. It's presently being used to describe information being available in search results as soon as it has been published by its author. Examples of this ...Read More