Phil Leggetter

Just had a little idea for a website/web application that allows you to check when you are due to upgrade your mobile phone and a few other things.

We live in a flat that was previously occupied by Jo's Grandparents.

I noticed a tweet today about real-time JavaScript charts and couldn't resist having a play.

There's so much excitement about real-time push technologies that quite often, in fact almost always, the benefits of using push are overlooked, forgotten, or simply not known.

Selling your used car We own a 53 Reg Peugeot 206 and are thinking of an upgrade.

Over the past few weeks we've been dabbling with first creating a PUbSubHubbub Subscriber and then building a cool real-time demo which integrates the real-time feed goodness from Superfeedr with the real-time client push wickedness of Kwwika.

I'm building an ASP.NET MVC2 web application and I was trying to access ViewData in my Site.Master page and I kept getting "master does not have a definition for ViewData".

I recently did an interview about Kwwika with Jane Adams for Innovation Focus Scotland.

It would appear that setting the Credentials property of a HttpWebRequest still leads to authentication failure against the Superfeedr HTTP PubSubHubbub API.

We're try to get more and more people using Kwwika and we feel that registering is maybe a barrier to entry.

Update: Unfortunately Kwwika is no more.

A number big players have come up with pages or applications in an attempt to draw World Cup fans into either combining using a laptop whilst watching the live games on television or using the application as their main view into the World Cup.

To celebrate the start of the World Cup 2010 in South Africa we're very excited to announce our Kwwika World Cup 2010 Real-Time Push Web App - Apple iPad competition sponsored by TellyLinks.com.

With real-time push becoming mainstream more and more developers are going to start adding real-time push to their website.

It's been revealed that Google are going to release a version of their API that supports Real-Time news push.

This video shows a chat application built using the Kwwika JavaScript API and a chat application built using the Kwwika Silverlight API.

This video shows a chat application built using the Kwwika JavaScript API and a chat application built using the Kwwika Silverlight API.

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Following on from the first #LeadersDebate demo blog post we thought it would be good to look back on how we built the demo, how it performed on the two debate evenings and determine what worked and what did not.

I've just recorded a "Kwwik" demonstration of a Twitter page using the Kwwika service versus the http://search.twitter.com page versus TweetDeck to demonstrate the speed of the Kwwika service.

Ian Sanders recently posted a great thought provoking blog article about business by-products.

Update: Hang on a minute.

This post is going to be short and sweet.

Cross domain requests (also known as Cross Origin Resource Sharing) can be made using JavaScript without trickery, as far as I can tell, in Firefox 3.5, Safari, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8.

Real-Time Web!

I'm doing my best to keep up to speed on any news related to the real-time web.

I've just come across William Vambenepe's blog and an article called "Waiting for events (in Cloud APIs)" where he discusses how an event system is missing from cloud vendor APIs.

According to this article by Read Write Web, Bing have exclusive access to the data created by Facebook user status updates and Google have access to the data from Facebook fan page updates.

I've started building a list of cloud hosting vendors, including those offering platform as a service (PAAS).

It would appear that the Silverlight runtime creates a file named XCP*.tmp of around 20MB within a users %temp% directory (where * can be replaced by random characters).

A few months back I wrote an article for the UK MSDN Flash newsletter.

Last week I attended the TechCrunch ChristmasCrunch which came with the tagline “It’s a realtime holiday”.

On or around the 12th of December 2009 Google released a feature they are calling "real-time search".

Last night, just over 12 hours ago, I attended the Gary Vaynerchuk Crush It event organised by Sprouter in London.

On the 15th of December I’m going to the ChristmasCrunch.

A lot of websites use HTTP Polling to update data on on their website or application without the need for the user refreshing the website.

I've been a member of the RIA Developers Group on LinkedIn for a short while now and the other day Patrick Bay posted a link to an interesting article on Computer Weekly about the prominence of RIAs.

I've just had an article published in the latest UK MSDN Flash newsletter on How to consume real-time data in a Silverlight RIA.

If you are trying to make a web request from a Silverlight application the first thing the Silverlight runtime will do is request a security policy file (see Network Security Access Restrictions in Silverlight) from the root of the server you are making y…

Real-Time Rich Internet Applications (RTRIAs) are RIAs that consume and display real-time data.

Recently I was posed the following question: Write a piece of code that prints all odd integer numbers between 1 and 99 This really isn't a difficult question but it still requires some thought.

I've recently created an application called GetGravatar that allows you to update your Twitter profile picture with your Gravatar.

I finally got around to trying out ASP.NET MVC and while I was at it I thought I'd also give Windows Azure a whirl.

I was writing a Windows Azure ASP.NET MVC application and when making a call to a page I received the following exception: System.Security.SecurityException: That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers In my application I'm using Castle Windsor…

Many times in the past I've said or heard the term "work life balance".

A while ago a wrote a blog article called What is the real-time Web?.

My girlfriend was out at the Take That concert at Wembley so I was left on my own this Saturday afternoon.

A couple of days ago I blogged that I was going to attend a Microsoft bing round table.

On Monday between 19:00 and 21:00 I'm going to a Bing roundtable (round table) in London.

Conclusion I finally managed to get the O2 XDA Serra (HTC Touch Pro) but boy was it a hassle!