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Choosing your Realtime Web App Tech Stack
9 Dec 2013
In this final part ( sorry for the delay ) I'm going to cover how you should approach choosing your Realtime Web App Tech Stack. Socket.IO has done an amazing job when it comes to making people aware of realtime web technology. And it's a great solution. But, it shouldn't be the default choice when choosing your realtime web solution. You should instead take a number of factors into account. Then, if it provides the functionality required to meet your requirements, use it. But there are lots of other fantastic realtime web solutions available that may be a better fit or your application's needs.
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Fundamentals of the Realtime Web & Realtime Web Functionality
31 Oct 2013
In part 1 of this 3-part write-up from my talk at FOWA London 2013 I covered the History, Background, Benefits Use Cases of Realtime . In this 2nd part I'm going to provide details on some fundaments about realtime web technology and an overview of the basic types of functionality that they offer.
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History, Background, Benefits & Use Cases of Realtime
28 Oct 2013
This is part 1 of a 3 part series on Choosing your Realtime Web App Tech Stack . It's based on the talk I recently gave at the Future of Web Apps.
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The current state of Realtime Web Tech for PHP
18 Oct 2013
I quite frequently see posts on StackOverflow about how to add realtime functionality to a PHP application, or to build a realtime solution with PHP. And I'm increasingly getting emails asking the same. So, here's what I feel the current state of Realtime Web Technology is for PHP.
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The JavaScript Weekly Effect
21 Sept 2013
On Monday we published our first BladeRunnerJS (BRJS) blog post . It provides an overview of what BRJS is, why it was created and why it's being open sourced. We saw a nice spike in traffic and I was thinking about ways I could try to sustain that. I decided not to take any action (e.g. submit for consideration in JavaScript Weekly) for two reasons; we'd publish plenty more posts over the coming weeks and we don't have any source in github right now. It would therefore be much better to focus on getting traffic when there's actually a solution that people can download and try out.
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Web Development Pic 'n' Mix
18 Jul 2013
Over the past three weeks I've had the opportunity to investigate modern web development tools and I feel a little bit like a kid in a sweet shop. Firstly, I'm excited to be here. Secondly, there's so much to choose from. In the past you may have been able to pick up a selection box containing a few pre-defined dev tool options. Now, there are so many technologies and tools available it's like being in the pic 'n' mix section.
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Leaving Pusher: What's Next?
4 Jul 2013
Around 3 months ago I made the very difficult decision to leave Pusher. After just over 2 years I'm leaving behind what - up until now - has been the best job I've ever had. In this post I'll cover what's been achieved while I've been at Pusher, why I left and what I'm going to be doing next.
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Technical Customer Service is hard - thoughts from Converge Conf 2013
6 Jun 2013
I've been to quite a few conferences over the last couple of years (46 conferences and events, by my count). Converge Conference was something different. Although a tech conference, the focus in the talks I saw was most definitely on soft skills and experiences, and not really on the tech. This was highly refreshing. There were 3 talks in particular that resonated with me.
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Windows Azure Mobile Services Realtime Collaborative To Do App
9 Apr 2013
Inspired by the first two talks at stacked13 by Mike Taulty and then Maarten Balliauw I thought I'd jump straight into Windows Azure Mobile Services and build an a realtime collaborative synchronised todo list . I'd do this based on the Get started with data in Mobile Services HTML guide . I would then and host it on a Windows Azure web site .
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How I won the ESRI DevSummit 100 lines of JavaScript competition
29 Mar 2013
First I'd like to emphasise that this is a blog post on how and not why . The why comes down to the judges. So, thanks Judges! Secondly I'd like to thank Rob Dunfey for the idea and for providing additional motivation - I'll dig deeper into this later. Finally: what am I going to cover? As the title suggests, I want to cover the how .
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