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In July I participated in London to the Comet Panel, organized by the London Ajax User Group. Me and a bunch of other Comet experts talked about our own Comet projects, and I talked about CometD. Here you can watch …

Phil Windley of Tecnometria has recorded an interview with me on Cometd and Push Technology.  The podcast is available from ITConversations and provides an introduction to comet and cometd.    

With the imminent release of cometd-2.0.0, it’s time to publish some of our own lies, damned lies and benchmarks. It has be over 2 years since we published the 20,000 reasons that cometd scales and in that time we have …

Jan Bartel and I will be presenting a "Guide to Jetty" Webinar on Thu, Apr 8, 2010 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT.   We’ll present an overview of Jetty and then show some hands on examples of running Jetty, …

Johannes Brodwall has posted another great description of his techniques dealing with Jetty in everyday development life. It was great to meet him in person finally in Oslo recently, and he definitely has thought through what he does and why, …

The websocket protocol has been touted as a great leap forward for bidirectional web applications like chat, promising a new era of simple comet applications. Unfortunately there is no such thing as a silver bullet and this blog will walk …

Jan Bartel (Intalio) and Daan Van Santeen (Progress FUSE) will be giving a series of live webinars on how Jetty, Cometd and ActiveMQ can be used to provide a reliable messaging platform to the browser. What Jetty is and how …

There is a jurisdictional issue brewing over the future of internet standards – I know because I’m stirring the pot.  The dispute is between the WHATWG and the IETF regarding the specification process for the websocket protocol (which I have …