Head of Developer Experience & Relations at Hookdeck
With the real-time web being claimed by some to be one of the core components of Web 3.0 it's unsurprising that we are seeing more real-time APIs and real-time mashups being developed. One mashup has just been created using Kwwika and Superfeedr to demonstrate how two real-time platforms can be integrated to create a real-time news reader application .
Most of the time we write about mapping, it admittedly includes Google Maps (we list over 2000 Google Maps mashups ). However, ESRI , the biggest supplier of geographic tools for the enterprise, has made huge strides this year with its tools, including its own web mapping platform, ESRI ArcGIS JavaScript API .
Just had a little idea for a website/web application that allows you to check when you are due to upgrade your mobile phone and a few other things. Something probably exists but here are a few ideas:Enter the details of your mobile phone co...
We live in a flat that was previously occupied by Jo's Grandparents. One of the things we do occasionally is sort out a room or cupboard. Today I'm tidying up a room for a friend to move in whilst he's finishing his University course. I've a...
I noticed a tweet today about real-time JavaScript charts and couldn't resist having a play. The charts are call Smoothie Charts and have been developed by Joe Walnes. You can read the blog post where he announced the release of them here. ...
There's so much excitement about real-time push technologies that quite often, in fact almost always, the benefits of using push are overlooked, forgotten, or simply not known. The technology excites programmers who want to use it, want to k...
Selling your used car We own a 53 Reg Peugeot 206 and are thinking of an upgrade. I'm not really into cars - I just use them to get from A to B. I'm not really all that fond of the idea of selling privately although I know that it's probabl...
Over the past few weeks we've been dabbling with first creating a PUbSubHubbub Subscriber and then building a cool real-time demo which integrates the real-time feed goodness from Superfeedr with the real-time client push wickedness of ...
I'm building an ASP.NET MVC2 web application and I was trying to access ViewData in my Site.Master page and I kept getting "master does not have a definition for ViewData". [code lang="xml"] %= ViewData[ topic ] % [/code] The simple answer was that my Master Page was not an ASP.NET MVC2 master page. Somehow I had a standard master page. So, all I did was swap the existing page declaration [code lang="xml"] %@ Master Language= C AutoEventWireup= true CodeBehind= Site.Master.cs Inherits= HubSubscriber.Views.Shared.Site % [/code] With an ASP.NET MVC2 declaration: [code lang="xml"] %@ Master Language= C Inherits= System.Web.Mvc.ViewMasterPage % [/code] And bingo! ViewData was now accessible from my master page. This post on Passing Data to View Master Pages may also be useful.
I recently did an interview about Kwwika with Jane Adams for Innovation Focus Scotland. We chatted about what Kwwika offered, what our costing model is (or will be), what competition we have and how we will differ from that competition. I a...