Wayne Robinson

Sometimes I think the world is conspiring against me. Only a day after announcing I would get the second article released on the server-push topic, I come down with the flu.

Now I don't know how the common cold affects you, but when I'm sick, everything arround me seems fuzzy. I have difficulty concentrating on any one task and my ability to form medium-to-long term memory seems to leave me.

 Oh well, I've almost recovered now, so I will make the same committment now as I did last week. I shall have the companion article finished by the end of the week for you all to see. In the meantime, why don't you head on over to Alex's blog where he is putting the finishing touches on a Flash sockets implementation of server-push for when you don't want to push JavaScript to the end of your standards-compliant website or wrap all your data in JavaScript.

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.