Client Push Services Open Up Real-Time to Everyone

By On September 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Real-timeThe number of services offering real-time APIs is slowly but surely expanding and it looks like we’re going to have to add quite a few more. Since the start of the year a new type of service has started to appear–client push services, which help developers include real-time updates in their web apps.

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Thoughts on the TechCrunch ChristmasCrunch (#xmascrunch)

By On December 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Last week I attended the TechCrunch ChristmasCrunch which came with the tagline “It’s a realtime holiday”. It’s great to see so many companies embracing the real-time web and building their businesses around it. Some companies that you would still class as start-ups such as TweetDeck, Seesmic and

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How does Google Real-Time Search work?

By On December 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment

On or around the 12th of December 2009 Google released a feature they are calling “real-time search”.

Our real-time search enables you to discover breaking news the moment it’s happening, even if it’s not the popular news of the day, and even if you didn’t know about it beforehand.

Although I’d still argue that we’re [...]

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A Real Time Rich Internet Application (RTRIA) Example

By On November 3, 2009 · 3 Comments

I’ve just had an article published in the latest UK MSDN Flash newsletter on How to consume real-time data in a Silverlight RIA. As part of writing up the article I developed a sample Real-Time Rich Internet Application (RTRIA) that consumes real-time data from the Twitter [...]

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Using Fiddler to trick Silverlight into allowing a crossdomain Web Request

By On October 30, 2009 · 4 Comments

If you are trying to make a web request from a Silverlight application the first thing the Silverlight runtime will do is request a security policy file (see Network Security Access Restrictions in Silverlight) from the root of the server you are making your web request to. This happens if you are making [...]

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Real-Time Rich Internet Applications (RTRIA)

By On October 29, 2009 · 2 Comments

Real-Time Rich Internet Applications (RTRIAs) are RIAs that consume and display real-time data. They have all the characteristics of an RIA with the added feature that data is being pushed to them in real-time as soon as it becomes available. This is in contrast to the current polling solution employed by most RIAs [...]

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