In this part of the tutorial we will install and setup the server side of a Comet installation using the Orbited implementation. We’ll also be using the MorbitQ STOMP server to handle message passing and we’ll play around with STOMP/Comet setup using Orbited’s STOMP Test demo. If you have not read the first blog post [...]
Archive for June, 2009
9 Jun
Starting Out With Comet (Orbited) Part 1
This is the first article in a series I’m creating to ease developers into using Comet. The documentation is severely lacking on every comet implementation I’ve come across which I think is Comet’s biggest limitation at the moment. Hopefully this will help those interested in Comet to struggle less with their implementations than I did/do. [...]
8 Jun
New Blog Design By Amanda Scharlemann
A few weeks ago I published a request for a generous designer to create a unique look for this blog. Amanda Scharlemann was the first to respond and was a pleasure to work with! Amanda is a design student at Bethany Lutheran College and shows great potential. She had never worked with customizing WordPress Templates [...]
3 Jun
Find RSS Feed Links With jQuery
This took me a little while to figure out so I thought I’d share. You can use a jQuery selector to find any RSS links on a page very easily. The following line will return a list of the RSS link elements. The following snippet will create an array of all the urls to the [...]
2 Jun
TicTacToe in jQuery
As a demo application for a project of mine I wrote TicTacToe in Javascript using the jQuery framework. I’ve added excessive comments to the code to provide an easy walk-through example on the jQuery/Javascript game. I’m in no way a JavaScript expert, there are a hundred different ways to program TicTacToe, and this code is [...]
