I'm not dead yet
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 09:30PM Hey everyone. Sorry for not posting in a while (wow, it's been over a month). I promise I haven't abandoned yet another blog, it's just been crazy of late working both on StaffLocation and my day job over at QPFL (nb: I'm not the web designer).
StaffLocation is definitely starting to come together and has inspired quite a long list of articles that I need to blog about. StaffLocation started as a simple In/Out status board but has evolved into areas I never thought possible for a web application. I know, I know... I should just just 'get real' and release a beta for everyone to play with, but there are still some kinks in the interaction with some external services and it's real-time nature that need ironing out before everyone gets to play, so stay tuned (you can register for updates on the home page).
As for QPFL well, it's getting close to the end of the Australian financial year and everyone is racing to get their product applications in by 30 June. It's a real buzz and quite exhausing to be in the office this time of year. Everything needs to be done yesterday (or last month) and everyone's racing around to make sure we get everything done whilst complying with the multitude of Australian financial services regulations.
Anyway, must get back to work. I promise to have part 2 of the push/pull article up by the end of the week.
Reader Comments (2)
Client A -- opens socket to-->> Socket Server
Client B -- makes xhr call to Rails-->> Rails sends message to -->> Socket Server.
Socket server converts message into base64 and broadcasts message to clients (A) -->> Client decodes the base64 and evaluates it.
I'll be interested to see your 'listening' layer and how you keep track of users. You can see a demo of a real-time chat app
http://alexmaccaw.no-ip.info:3001/chat and the related blog post
http://eribium.org/eribium/?p=48