Phil Leggetter - Real-Time Web Software and Technology Evangelist
I can’t believe it, but I’ve now been working for Pusher for a year. It’s been an exciting year both in life and in business – and it’s great when you spend a lot of the time working on something you are really interested in. So, I thought I’d push out a post [...]
Really pleased to see my realtime commenting system blog post appearing on Smashing Magazine. The post took a reasonable amount of time to write but I really like the way that the application is built from near-scratch and is progressively enhanced, first with AJAX and then realtime web functionality.
“WebSockets or Comet”
I’ve been thinking about writing about this frequently used statement for a while, and I’ve seen a few comments and discussions previously about this e.g. from Martin Tyler of Caplin Systems and Peter Lubbers of Kaazing in a post on InfoQ).
Martin’s [...]
Over the weekend I attended the Code Africa hack weekend which was organised and hosted by The Times. The event saw developers, designers, journalists and entrepreneurs come together to try and form ideas and build prototypes over one weekend. My main takeaways from the event were a much better understanding of [...]
I started writing this right after the jQuery UK event but have only just found time to finish it off sitting in Stansted airport at 7am.
jQuery is a funny thing; it’s made JavaScript coding easy for advanced developers and accessible to web designers, and you could even say that the web designer role has [...]
Realtime location tracking Poll (I’m sure they’ll introduce WebHooks soon) the Vodafone API and push realtime updates to a map.
A better Betfair Ok, you probably won’t be able to build an app that’s better than betfair. But using our API in conjunction with Betfair you’ll be able to build a realtime betting system. The [...]
When data is being delivered to web applications the chances are that you’ll be displaying that data within the user interface (UI). In order to do this you need to find the element in the Document Object Model (DOM) and then update it. Whilst the performance of web browsers is improving all the [...]
I gave a presentation yesterday at Edinburgh techmeetup. A big thanks to Dale Harvey for inviting me to talk and to all the attendees for taking the time to attend, listen and interact. Aaron Bassett also gave a good talk on Avoiding Integration Hell so I’d recommend you follow [...]
Continue Reading → The real-time web started off by just being “cool”; a quirky and fun space to be in with lots of “cool” technology. People weren’t sure whether it was just a fad, stimulated by hype. The value it delivers in the form of customer engagement, interaction, collaboration and the opportunities it can provide by being real-time [...]
Continue Reading → A couple of hours ago I was on a on the ‘The Right Place At The Right Time: How The Real-Time Web Influences The “local” World’ panel at the Local Social Summit. The panel was organised and chaired by Sebastien Provencher and also included RyanMacJones, Dave Ambrose [...]
Continue Reading → About Phil Leggetter
My name is Phil Leggetter and I'm a Developer Evangelist at Pusher, a Real-Time Web Software and Technology Evangelist and Consultant, software engineer, team leader, line manager, micropreneur, product developer, Twitter user and a keen user of social media. For more information see the About Phil Leggetter page.
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