Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
So far I've looked at two ways of doing server push. The first used a hidden IFRAME which had the SRC attribute set to a persistent connection on the server. The server would push Javascript code along this connection whenever it wanted the client to do something. This had the downside of the browser always displaying a 'loading' indicator as... more →
From the Erlang mailing list comes a pointer to 'Real-time Wiki'. It's a Google Summer of Code project that allows using XMPP (ie. Jabber) from a browser based client. Values can be changed from the server and the change is broadcast to the clients and instantly updated. It seems that the application for this is a Wiki that updates automatically... more →
I like the idea of writing device drivers and operating system components in other languages, as mentioned in a previous post about Haskell and Minix. I installed Minix 3 and ran it under qemu to try it out. It's very functional but doesn't have much in the way of software or 'nice to have' features yet. But the source is... more →
There's an 'Unenterprisey Languages meeting' at 4pm this Saturday (the 10th of June) in Wellington, New Zealand. It's being held in the L2 boardroom at Catalyst, Level 2, 150 Willis St. Speakers so far are: more →
A while ago in my old weblog I posted some Sisc Scheme code to demonstrate a thread migrating from one Sisc session to another. Since Rhino, the Java based Javascript implementation, has serializable continuations I decided to try porting it to Javascript. The code demonstrating it is in migrate.js. Loading this into a Rhino session provides a function called 'messageListener'... more →