Comet implementations require both server and client side components. In Part 2 of this series we installed and configured the server side component and then used the example STOMP Test client to test it out and get a feel for what was going on. In this part of the series we’ll be covering the client [...]
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21 Jul
Appengine Example: Quick Thoughts
I’ve made a few apps on Google’s Appengine now and am getting to the point where I can pump them out fairly quickly. I really love that they make user authentication (my least favorite part of web applications) incredibly simplified. I wrote this app in less than an hour as a simple tool for myself [...]
25 Jun
Starting Out With Comet (Orbited) Part 2 – Installation and STOMP
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 [...]
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 [...]
26 May
GNU Screen Basic Tutorial
If you’ve ever SSHed into a server, ran something, logged off and got frustrated because whatever you were running stopped running because you had to change coffee shops or go to class then you’ve experienced the need for GNU Screen. Put simply it allows you to maintain a persistent session, a terminal that does not [...]
21 May
Deploying MoinMoin on Ubuntu using Apache mod_wsgi
I just went through a somewhat lengthy setup process to deploy a moinmoin wiki on Ubuntu. There’s a lot of documentation on it which actually makes it take a bit longer than I’m used to for getting something running on Ubuntu. I thought I’d share my streamlined notes for this common deployment scenario. The first [...]
