Phil Leggetter

A couple of hours ago I was on a on the 'The Right Place At The Right Time: How The Real-Time Web Influences The "local" World' panel at the Local Social Summit.

I've just finished reading chapter 2 of Zoom!

I'm not answering this question directly in the post.

With the arrival of WebSockets we finally have a standardised technology for true realtime bi-directional communication between a server and a web browser (or any other client).

Over the past 10 or so years I've written a lot of JavaScript.

I value honesty, fairness and thoughtfulness above many other things.

In our last ASP.NET post, The easiest way to add real-time functionality to an ASP.NET e-commerce application, I demonstrated how to add realtime stock level updates and notifications to an ASP.NET e-commerce application.

While adding realtime functionality to ASP.NET applications has often seemed difficult due to the connection limitations of the IIS platform, it can actually be achieved fairly easily by offloading this component to third party services like Pusher.

I joined Pusher around over a month ago now and it's been a non-stop whirlwind of activity.

At the beginning of 2011 we reported that Collect had decided to drop it’s API in order to change their offering to something more profitable.

I spent the majority of last week in Warsaw at Falsy Values where I attended a Games Workshop and a conference day.

If you follow me on Twitter or if I've met up with you in the past few weeks you'll probably know, or have guessed the news.

PubSubHubbub has become the standard protocol for real-time RSS and Atom feed subscription and delivery.

A couple of nights ago I want to a Dundee Web Standards event.

On Saturday I went to DDD Scotland for the first time and really enjoyed myself.

I'm a .NET guy and I'm excited and interested in cutting edge technologies.

The number of “as a Service” types continues to grow and we are even seeing services that help you build your own service.

SXSW was the source of a flood of real-time information on the web.

I'm looking for a contractor for a provisional 3 month contract with the following skills, experience and interests: Essential C# jQuery TDD/BDD ASP.NET MVC ADO.NET Entity Framework or other ORM Great to have Passionate about the real-time web and real-ti…

Real-time and the real-time web continue to be a hot topic of conversation but is the term “real-time” getting used correctly?

Cloud APIs are all about the endpoints: some services follow the current trend of providing a RESTful end point, others use older protocols such as RPC or SOAP, some use newer – push focused – endpoints like WebSockets or HTTP Streaming, others may offer a

During the past four months we’ve seen not one but two well known real-time search engines disappear.

I did my first ever TechMeetup talk yesterday in Aberdeen and my chosen subject, unsurprisingly, was The Real-Time Web.

A core feature of the real-time web is the continuously updating real-time streams of information.

Brightwurks, who develop Feed My Inbox, have just posted a blog article explaining the Real-Time Delivery of blogs, feeds and news to an email inbox.

I've just posted a comment on a really good article by Kate Ho of Startup Cafe about her predictions on the rise of multi-user, multi-device table applications.

Delivery as a Service and Data as a Service (both DaaS) are definitely going to be big in 2011.

A lot of people have written up their thoughts on 2010.

There are a number of ways of delivering data in real-time but until recently it has looked like PubSubHubbub, with the backing of Google, was going to be the preferred method.

In a world where real-time data streams are becoming much more common, and with the volume of that data continuing to increase, it makes sense that a framework would be developed to increase the ease at which that data can be processed.

I've just been involved in a twitter conversation with Nick Halstead of DataSift on Twitter.

Over the past couple of weeks we've been involved in developing a Real-Time Cricket widget.

We've got a potential client interested in using Kwwika on HP webOS so we've been working with them to test the Kwwika JavaScript library on a platform that we've not been directly targeting.

Originally post on Programmable Web Over the past few months at PW we’ve noticed steady increase in the number of mentions of Data as a Service (DaaS) and this trend looks to continue.

I just saw a tweet by @mhawksey linking to a government announcement: More than £200m will be invested by the Government in a network of elite Technology and Innovation Centres to drive growth in the UK’s most high-tech industries, it was announced today.

Cycling in the UK is not only a popular past time but and also a real commuting choice.

The Configuring a Website that Uses Application Services page does cover Copying User Accounts from Development to Production but doesn't go into all that much detail.

WIFI is absolutely essential for those working on the move.

I'm looking forward to Gary Vaynerchuk's new book called The Thank You Economy.

Here's an interesting example where Google really isn't returning the most relevant information.

I was just looking at my web stats and was presented with a Chrome advertisement at the top of the page.

First, it's worth having a listen to the Social Media White Noise Podcast episode.

In case you hadn't noticed, when I'm not getting hit by flying trout, I like to think of myself as a bit of a real-time web guy.

The number of services offering real-time APIs is slowly but surely expanding and it looks like we’re going to have to add quite a few more.

I was out with my friend.

One of the reasons FourSquare is popular is because you can get awards or badges for your check-ins.

Just listening to the Social Media White Noise podcast and really enjoying it.

Google have released a real-time search site aimed at showing search results as it happens.

With the real-time web being claimed by some to be one of the core components of Web 3.0 it’s unsurprising that we are seeing more real-time APIs and real-time mashups being developed.

Most of the time we write about mapping, it admittedly includes Google Maps (we list over 2000 Google Maps mashups).