Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
Audible Ajax 16: March State of Ajax
Category: Podcasts
Ben and I discuss the recent news, grab the IE team to ask them about IE 7, and get Jamis Buck of 37 Signals to talk about scalability of Campfire.
What we cover on the podcast
- Happy Birthday Ajax: Leapfrogging from the tech community to the business world
- Comet: A new approach to Ajax applications(Slides)
- Laszlo Ajax Runtime
- Adobe Announces a Flex/Ajax Bridge
- Google Calendar: CL2
- JavaScript Style Guide
- IntelliJ IDEA Ajax Screencast
- Yahoo! Libraries
- Forget addEvent, use Yahoo!’s Event Utility
- Prototype gets some serious syntactic sugar
- Prototype Cheat Sheets
- TurboWidgets and TurboDbAdmin
- DWR 11 Released
- Clipmarks: Ajax Image Clipping
- 17 minutes with Bill Gates
Future of Web Browsers
Question to the IE team: “What have you been doing, and why have you made us wait for so long for a new release?”
Question from the community
In this episode we answered a question emailed in by Mitchell: “How scalable are these ajax based chat applications like Campfire?”.
We cornered Jamis Buck of 37 Signals, to get the answer from the horses mouth!
The Ajax Experience
We announced a new track at the conference to keep up with demand. Please join the community for our first developer focus event in May at The Ajax Experience.
Please email podcast [at] ajaxian.com with any feedback and especially if you have anything that you want us to chat about in future ‘casts!
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I’d just like to point you to a detailed analysis of comet by Michael Mahemoff.
Podcast
Towards the end of the podcast, you seemed to equate polling to using a threaded based server and comet to using an event based server. However, this isn’t necessarily the case. In fact, I’m quite sure that 37signals is using lighttpd, an event-based web server, for their campfire polling server.
See comment by David:
http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000563.html#comments
Your podcasts are downloading very slowly, around 20 KB/second, even if I try a wget from my web host.
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Getting Real - the book
I highly recommend the PDF book Getting Real by the 37signals guys. I’m not a Ruby or Rails user, but…
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