Musings & News

The first Comet book is about to be released, and a great Comet talk is scheduled for OSCON.

In light of the recent discussion about sockets and protocols and Comet, I’ve been thinking about browser protocols

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Using maven to build your project is fantastic for managing your dependencies and avoiding having dependencies (and their dependencies) checked into your own svn.

A few weeks ago MySpace invited me to give a presentation about using Orbited to create scalable Comet applications.

In my recent review of Comet projects hosted by Google code, I ran across Rupy, which recently added a Comet chat demo.

Michael Carter’s recent Sockets in the Browser has received significant interest. JP Calderone wrote an example of a TCP sockets implementation for Athena in five minutes.

David Davis, co-creator of the Cometd project, read through Michael Carter’s recent post on Sockets in the Browser points out that Sprocket.Socket also supports sockets in the browser.

There are two really interesting blogs recently that demonstrate Comet and its increasing adoption.

I will be giving a talk this Saturday titled “Impact of the Reverse AJAX (Comet), TCP Connection and HTML5 to the architecture of the Web” at the iPhone BarCamp this Saturday in Palo Alto, CA.