We’ve said it before (Bad Robot!), but after the Android 2.0/Nexus One developments, it really bears repeating: Google either do not understand or do not care about community once their immediate corporate goals have been met. In the Bad Robot! …
The CometD project has finally released its 1.0 version ! I have already posted here about new features of the CometD project, but the 1.0 release is a further step forward in usability, stability and documentation. For those of you …
Jetty-7.0.1 has been extended with a WebSocket server implementation based on the same scalable asynchronous IO infrastructure of Jetty and integrated into the Jetty Servlet container. WebSocket came out of work on HTML5 by the What Working Group to specify …
When I was given the opportunity to come work at Webtide several months ago, I knew right away this was definitely a chance of a lifetime. It is absolutely amazing to be able to work with Jetty founders Greg and …
Background The W3C has developed the Websocket API proposal for HTML5, that enables web pages to perform two-way communication with a remote host. There is also a proposed IETF draft websocket protocol to transport the websocket messages. I believe …
In his Homesteading in the Noosphere essay, Eric S. Raymond likened the creation of open source projects to homesteading on a frontier, via a process of “mixing one’s labor with the unowned land, fencing it, and defending one’s title”, in …
The release of Firefox 3.5 included several new features for developers. One of the most interesting new features is the support for cross-domain HTTP requests made with XMLHttpRequest objects (see here for details) or, by using Mozilla’s terminology, cross-origin requests. …
The Dojo project has pioneered the implementation of the Bayeux specification, but for example the jQuery project lacked a robust client-side Cometd implementation. This gap has been filled now, with a shared pure-JavaScript implementation and bindings for both Dojo and …
Jetty now has available an asynchronous implementation for BlazeDS which uses Jetty 7 portable continuations. BlazeDS is an open source serverside web messaging technology. It provides real-time data push to flex/flash clients using techniques, such as polling and streaming, to …
I had a great conversation recently with Benjamin Kuo at socalTECH.com. Webtide is an extremely distributed organization around the world, but indeed I am located in the heart of Southern California, Los Angeles. It was a good time to talk …