Ditch Your Backend with PubNub Messenger
blog.pubnub.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: Although ‘messaging’ has become increasingly popular among web applications, there have been issues with connectivity, a poor feature set, and compatibility with one platform. These are most likely due to the complexity of building a scalable backend that connects in real-time to multiple clients. I set out to fix this with PubNub Messenger. My task for this project was to create a well-featured and scalable chat application that runs on Android, iOS, and Desktop in a few weeks work. No big deal, right? The tools I chose for this task were jQuery Mobile and the PubNub API. jQuery Mobile is an amazing frontend framework that allowed me to deliver my app to multiple devices without worrying about interface size or enabling touch.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, BaaS, Real-Time
Introducing Sockii: HTTP and WebSocket aggregator
blog.serverdensity.com
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: Developing the upcoming Server Density v2 over the past year has forced us to tackle some very interesting and difficult problems. This post introduces Sockii, a Node. js daemon which aggregates multiple WebSocket connections and proxies them to a single socket to the user’s browser. Server Density v2 was re-designed from the ground up as a distributed set of HTTP services, following much in the same vein as Netflix or Amazon’s Service Orientated Architecture approach. What that means is that each distinctly different moving part of the project was separated into its own service (when it made sense to do so), e. g. “users”, “devices”, “cloud” etc.... read the full post.
Tags: Aggregation, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Consumer, HTTP, Real-Time, WebSockets
[New Whitepaper] Real-Time Data Aggregation
blog.infochimps.com
on 04/26/2013
Excerpt: Fast response times generate costs savings and greater revenue. Enterprise data architectures are incomplete unless they can ingest, analyze, and react to data in real-time as it is generated. While previously inaccessible or too complex — scalable, affordable real-time solutions are now finally available to any enterprise. Read Infochimps’ newest whitepaper on how Infochimps Cloud::Streams is a proprietary stream processing framework based on four years of experience with sourcing and analyzing both bulk and in-motion data sources.... read the full post.
Tags: Aggregation, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Real-Time
PubNub Expands Staff and Office
blog.pubnub.com
on 04/23/2013
Excerpt: You can only fit so many desks in a given space before you have to start stacking them on top of each other. When looking to accommodate the rapidly growing PubNub team, stacking employees turned out to be unfeasible, so we needed another option. To give everyone a little more room to breathe, PubNub doubled our office space at the current location. The new section has quickly taken on the nickname “The PubNub Annex”. The increased elbow room is one perk of the new space, but the fastest Real-Time Network on earth needs some cool racing stripes too! Check out the time lapse of a small part of the new paint job below:
In addition, the new office space overlooks the heavily congested 17th and Mississippi intersection.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Growth, Real-Time
How we built Pusher-JS 2.0 – part 1 – Basics
blog.pusher.com
on 04/17/2013
Excerpt: Last month we released pusher-js 2. 0 which represents a few months worth of development effort. So, we wanted to share some details about the work involved and the changes included in this latest release. As the release announcement states, our main goal with pusher-js 2. 0 was to improve the connectivity, so in this blog post we’ll focus on explaining how the new client tries to establish the best possible connection. Why it’s not that simple
There are surprisingly many things that can go wrong when trying to establish a real-time connection:
a browser might not support native WebSockets,
Flash might not be installed or can just be blocked,
firewalls can block specific ports (e. g.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, JavaScript, Pusher, Real-Time
Mozilla’s ‘TowTruck’ Brings Real-Time Collaboration to Any Website
www.webmonkey.com
on 04/17/2013
Excerpt: Mozilla’s TowTruck is a new project aimed at making it easy to collaborate on the web in real time — think real-time screensharing and co-authoring on any webpage. TowTruck is an experimental Labs project at the moment (alpha), but adding it to your site for testing takes only two lines of code. Head on over to the new TowTruck site to grab the code. If you’d like to try TowTruck from a user perspective, check out Mozilla’s demo pages.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Mozilla, Real-Time
Mozilla Launches TowTruck: An Experimental Project to Bring Google Drive-Like Collaboration to Any Site
thenextweb.com
on 04/14/2013
Excerpt: Currently just a “proof of concept” from Mozilla Labs, TowTruck is a service which adds real-time collaboration to any website. Similar to what you’d find in Google Drive, the awkwardly named TowTruck works with just a snippet of JavaScript code, and allows for real-time authoring, messaging and voice chatting via Web RTC. Mozilla’s goal with this project is to make it easier for everyone to work together on the Web — given how important remote communication has become, it’s great to see Mozilla developing an open-source solution. And because it’s open source, don’t be surprised to see customized TowTruck-powered features and services pop up.... read the full post.
Tags: Mozilla, Real-Time
An easy way to use the Chatter REST API
blogs.developerforce.com
on 04/09/2013
Excerpt: A while ago we set out to make our Content Management System social. We wanted it to talk to us, inform us of information we found useful. We decided to hook up our publishing system to Chatter. Whenever a page you were interested in changed, you would get a notification immediately in your Chatter Feed. But when we starting working on the Chatter REST API internally, it was hard. Documentation wasn’t easy to find, examples didn’t work for us and functionality didn’t match with the text. To be fair, it was still in development, but we needed it now. So, instead of letting it go, we wrote our own library – or wrapper if you prefer – in Java around the REST API.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Real-Time, Streaming
Windows Azure Mobile Services Realtime Collaborative To Do App
www.leggetter.co.uk
on 04/09/2013
Excerpt: Inspired by the first two talks at #stacked13 by Mike Taulty and then Maarten Balliauw I thought I’d get 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. Note: I want to publish this quite quickly so that people at the event can have a play. So, the rest of this post will be a bit of a brain dump and I’ll tidy it up later
In Mike’s talk he mentioned that the mobile service JavaScript library has just been released. So, this was an obvious starting point. Signing up for Azure and following the getting started guide was very simple.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Real-Time
HopStop Launches Crowd-Sourced Transit Alerts Through HopStop Live!
techcrunch.com
on 04/08/2013
Excerpt: Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Crook dabbled in mobile marketing and mobile apps as well as doing device reviews for MobileMarketer and MobileBurn. Crook is fascinated with alternative energy production and greentech. She is now a writer for CrunchGear.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Real-Time
Excerpt: Developing the upcoming Server Density v2 over the past year has forced us to tackle some very interesting and difficult problems. This post introduces Sockii, a Node. js daemon which aggregates multiple WebSocket connections and proxies them to a single socket to the user’s browser. Server Density v2 was re-designed from the ground up as a distributed set of HTTP services, following much in the same vein as Netflix or Amazon’s Service Orientated Architecture approach. What that means is that each distinctly different moving part of the project was separated into its own service (when it made sense to do so), e. g. “users”, “devices”, “cloud” etc.... read the full post.
Tags: Aggregation, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Consumer, HTTP, Real-Time, WebSockets
[New Whitepaper] Real-Time Data Aggregation
blog.infochimps.com
on 04/26/2013
Excerpt: Fast response times generate costs savings and greater revenue. Enterprise data architectures are incomplete unless they can ingest, analyze, and react to data in real-time as it is generated. While previously inaccessible or too complex — scalable, affordable real-time solutions are now finally available to any enterprise. Read Infochimps’ newest whitepaper on how Infochimps Cloud::Streams is a proprietary stream processing framework based on four years of experience with sourcing and analyzing both bulk and in-motion data sources.... read the full post.
Tags: Aggregation, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Real-Time
PubNub Expands Staff and Office
blog.pubnub.com
on 04/23/2013
Excerpt: You can only fit so many desks in a given space before you have to start stacking them on top of each other. When looking to accommodate the rapidly growing PubNub team, stacking employees turned out to be unfeasible, so we needed another option. To give everyone a little more room to breathe, PubNub doubled our office space at the current location. The new section has quickly taken on the nickname “The PubNub Annex”. The increased elbow room is one perk of the new space, but the fastest Real-Time Network on earth needs some cool racing stripes too! Check out the time lapse of a small part of the new paint job below:
In addition, the new office space overlooks the heavily congested 17th and Mississippi intersection.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Growth, Real-Time
How we built Pusher-JS 2.0 – part 1 – Basics
blog.pusher.com
on 04/17/2013
Excerpt: Last month we released pusher-js 2. 0 which represents a few months worth of development effort. So, we wanted to share some details about the work involved and the changes included in this latest release. As the release announcement states, our main goal with pusher-js 2. 0 was to improve the connectivity, so in this blog post we’ll focus on explaining how the new client tries to establish the best possible connection. Why it’s not that simple
There are surprisingly many things that can go wrong when trying to establish a real-time connection:
a browser might not support native WebSockets,
Flash might not be installed or can just be blocked,
firewalls can block specific ports (e. g.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, JavaScript, Pusher, Real-Time
Mozilla’s ‘TowTruck’ Brings Real-Time Collaboration to Any Website
www.webmonkey.com
on 04/17/2013
Excerpt: Mozilla’s TowTruck is a new project aimed at making it easy to collaborate on the web in real time — think real-time screensharing and co-authoring on any webpage. TowTruck is an experimental Labs project at the moment (alpha), but adding it to your site for testing takes only two lines of code. Head on over to the new TowTruck site to grab the code. If you’d like to try TowTruck from a user perspective, check out Mozilla’s demo pages.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Mozilla, Real-Time
Mozilla Launches TowTruck: An Experimental Project to Bring Google Drive-Like Collaboration to Any Site
thenextweb.com
on 04/14/2013
Excerpt: Currently just a “proof of concept” from Mozilla Labs, TowTruck is a service which adds real-time collaboration to any website. Similar to what you’d find in Google Drive, the awkwardly named TowTruck works with just a snippet of JavaScript code, and allows for real-time authoring, messaging and voice chatting via Web RTC. Mozilla’s goal with this project is to make it easier for everyone to work together on the Web — given how important remote communication has become, it’s great to see Mozilla developing an open-source solution. And because it’s open source, don’t be surprised to see customized TowTruck-powered features and services pop up.... read the full post.
Tags: Mozilla, Real-Time
An easy way to use the Chatter REST API
blogs.developerforce.com
on 04/09/2013
Excerpt: A while ago we set out to make our Content Management System social. We wanted it to talk to us, inform us of information we found useful. We decided to hook up our publishing system to Chatter. Whenever a page you were interested in changed, you would get a notification immediately in your Chatter Feed. But when we starting working on the Chatter REST API internally, it was hard. Documentation wasn’t easy to find, examples didn’t work for us and functionality didn’t match with the text. To be fair, it was still in development, but we needed it now. So, instead of letting it go, we wrote our own library – or wrapper if you prefer – in Java around the REST API.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Real-Time, Streaming
Windows Azure Mobile Services Realtime Collaborative To Do App
www.leggetter.co.uk
on 04/09/2013
Excerpt: Inspired by the first two talks at #stacked13 by Mike Taulty and then Maarten Balliauw I thought I’d get 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. Note: I want to publish this quite quickly so that people at the event can have a play. So, the rest of this post will be a bit of a brain dump and I’ll tidy it up later
In Mike’s talk he mentioned that the mobile service JavaScript library has just been released. So, this was an obvious starting point. Signing up for Azure and following the getting started guide was very simple.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Real-Time
HopStop Launches Crowd-Sourced Transit Alerts Through HopStop Live!
techcrunch.com
on 04/08/2013
Excerpt: Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Crook dabbled in mobile marketing and mobile apps as well as doing device reviews for MobileMarketer and MobileBurn. Crook is fascinated with alternative energy production and greentech. She is now a writer for CrunchGear.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Real-Time
Excerpt: You can only fit so many desks in a given space before you have to start stacking them on top of each other. When looking to accommodate the rapidly growing PubNub team, stacking employees turned out to be unfeasible, so we needed another option. To give everyone a little more room to breathe, PubNub doubled our office space at the current location. The new section has quickly taken on the nickname “The PubNub Annex”. The increased elbow room is one perk of the new space, but the fastest Real-Time Network on earth needs some cool racing stripes too! Check out the time lapse of a small part of the new paint job below: In addition, the new office space overlooks the heavily congested 17th and Mississippi intersection.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Growth, Real-Time
How we built Pusher-JS 2.0 – part 1 – Basics
blog.pusher.com
on 04/17/2013
Excerpt: Last month we released pusher-js 2. 0 which represents a few months worth of development effort. So, we wanted to share some details about the work involved and the changes included in this latest release. As the release announcement states, our main goal with pusher-js 2. 0 was to improve the connectivity, so in this blog post we’ll focus on explaining how the new client tries to establish the best possible connection. Why it’s not that simple
There are surprisingly many things that can go wrong when trying to establish a real-time connection:
a browser might not support native WebSockets,
Flash might not be installed or can just be blocked,
firewalls can block specific ports (e. g.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, JavaScript, Pusher, Real-Time
Mozilla’s ‘TowTruck’ Brings Real-Time Collaboration to Any Website
www.webmonkey.com
on 04/17/2013
Excerpt: Mozilla’s TowTruck is a new project aimed at making it easy to collaborate on the web in real time — think real-time screensharing and co-authoring on any webpage. TowTruck is an experimental Labs project at the moment (alpha), but adding it to your site for testing takes only two lines of code. Head on over to the new TowTruck site to grab the code. If you’d like to try TowTruck from a user perspective, check out Mozilla’s demo pages.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Mozilla, Real-Time
Mozilla Launches TowTruck: An Experimental Project to Bring Google Drive-Like Collaboration to Any Site
thenextweb.com
on 04/14/2013
Excerpt: Currently just a “proof of concept” from Mozilla Labs, TowTruck is a service which adds real-time collaboration to any website. Similar to what you’d find in Google Drive, the awkwardly named TowTruck works with just a snippet of JavaScript code, and allows for real-time authoring, messaging and voice chatting via Web RTC. Mozilla’s goal with this project is to make it easier for everyone to work together on the Web — given how important remote communication has become, it’s great to see Mozilla developing an open-source solution. And because it’s open source, don’t be surprised to see customized TowTruck-powered features and services pop up.... read the full post.
Tags: Mozilla, Real-Time
An easy way to use the Chatter REST API
blogs.developerforce.com
on 04/09/2013
Excerpt: A while ago we set out to make our Content Management System social. We wanted it to talk to us, inform us of information we found useful. We decided to hook up our publishing system to Chatter. Whenever a page you were interested in changed, you would get a notification immediately in your Chatter Feed. But when we starting working on the Chatter REST API internally, it was hard. Documentation wasn’t easy to find, examples didn’t work for us and functionality didn’t match with the text. To be fair, it was still in development, but we needed it now. So, instead of letting it go, we wrote our own library – or wrapper if you prefer – in Java around the REST API.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Real-Time, Streaming
Windows Azure Mobile Services Realtime Collaborative To Do App
www.leggetter.co.uk
on 04/09/2013
Excerpt: Inspired by the first two talks at #stacked13 by Mike Taulty and then Maarten Balliauw I thought I’d get 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. Note: I want to publish this quite quickly so that people at the event can have a play. So, the rest of this post will be a bit of a brain dump and I’ll tidy it up later
In Mike’s talk he mentioned that the mobile service JavaScript library has just been released. So, this was an obvious starting point. Signing up for Azure and following the getting started guide was very simple.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Real-Time
HopStop Launches Crowd-Sourced Transit Alerts Through HopStop Live!
techcrunch.com
on 04/08/2013
Excerpt: Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Crook dabbled in mobile marketing and mobile apps as well as doing device reviews for MobileMarketer and MobileBurn. Crook is fascinated with alternative energy production and greentech. She is now a writer for CrunchGear.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Real-Time
Excerpt: Mozilla’s TowTruck is a new project aimed at making it easy to collaborate on the web in real time — think real-time screensharing and co-authoring on any webpage. TowTruck is an experimental Labs project at the moment (alpha), but adding it to your site for testing takes only two lines of code. Head on over to the new TowTruck site to grab the code. If you’d like to try TowTruck from a user perspective, check out Mozilla’s demo pages.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Mozilla, Real-Time
Mozilla Launches TowTruck: An Experimental Project to Bring Google Drive-Like Collaboration to Any Site
thenextweb.com
on 04/14/2013
Excerpt: Currently just a “proof of concept” from Mozilla Labs, TowTruck is a service which adds real-time collaboration to any website. Similar to what you’d find in Google Drive, the awkwardly named TowTruck works with just a snippet of JavaScript code, and allows for real-time authoring, messaging and voice chatting via Web RTC. Mozilla’s goal with this project is to make it easier for everyone to work together on the Web — given how important remote communication has become, it’s great to see Mozilla developing an open-source solution. And because it’s open source, don’t be surprised to see customized TowTruck-powered features and services pop up.... read the full post.
Tags: Mozilla, Real-Time
An easy way to use the Chatter REST API
blogs.developerforce.com
on 04/09/2013
Excerpt: A while ago we set out to make our Content Management System social. We wanted it to talk to us, inform us of information we found useful. We decided to hook up our publishing system to Chatter. Whenever a page you were interested in changed, you would get a notification immediately in your Chatter Feed. But when we starting working on the Chatter REST API internally, it was hard. Documentation wasn’t easy to find, examples didn’t work for us and functionality didn’t match with the text. To be fair, it was still in development, but we needed it now. So, instead of letting it go, we wrote our own library – or wrapper if you prefer – in Java around the REST API.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Real-Time, Streaming
Windows Azure Mobile Services Realtime Collaborative To Do App
www.leggetter.co.uk
on 04/09/2013
Excerpt: Inspired by the first two talks at #stacked13 by Mike Taulty and then Maarten Balliauw I thought I’d get 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. Note: I want to publish this quite quickly so that people at the event can have a play. So, the rest of this post will be a bit of a brain dump and I’ll tidy it up later
In Mike’s talk he mentioned that the mobile service JavaScript library has just been released. So, this was an obvious starting point. Signing up for Azure and following the getting started guide was very simple.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Real-Time
HopStop Launches Crowd-Sourced Transit Alerts Through HopStop Live!
techcrunch.com
on 04/08/2013
Excerpt: Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Crook dabbled in mobile marketing and mobile apps as well as doing device reviews for MobileMarketer and MobileBurn. Crook is fascinated with alternative energy production and greentech. She is now a writer for CrunchGear.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Real-Time
Excerpt: A while ago we set out to make our Content Management System social. We wanted it to talk to us, inform us of information we found useful. We decided to hook up our publishing system to Chatter. Whenever a page you were interested in changed, you would get a notification immediately in your Chatter Feed. But when we starting working on the Chatter REST API internally, it was hard. Documentation wasn’t easy to find, examples didn’t work for us and functionality didn’t match with the text. To be fair, it was still in development, but we needed it now. So, instead of letting it go, we wrote our own library – or wrapper if you prefer – in Java around the REST API.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Real-Time, Streaming
Windows Azure Mobile Services Realtime Collaborative To Do App
www.leggetter.co.uk
on 04/09/2013
Excerpt: Inspired by the first two talks at #stacked13 by Mike Taulty and then Maarten Balliauw I thought I’d get 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. Note: I want to publish this quite quickly so that people at the event can have a play. So, the rest of this post will be a bit of a brain dump and I’ll tidy it up later
In Mike’s talk he mentioned that the mobile service JavaScript library has just been released. So, this was an obvious starting point. Signing up for Azure and following the getting started guide was very simple.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Real-Time
HopStop Launches Crowd-Sourced Transit Alerts Through HopStop Live!
techcrunch.com
on 04/08/2013
Excerpt: Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Crook dabbled in mobile marketing and mobile apps as well as doing device reviews for MobileMarketer and MobileBurn. Crook is fascinated with alternative energy production and greentech. She is now a writer for CrunchGear.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Real-Time
Excerpt: Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Crook dabbled in mobile marketing and mobile apps as well as doing device reviews for MobileMarketer and MobileBurn. Crook is fascinated with alternative energy production and greentech. She is now a writer for CrunchGear.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Real-Time
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