Phil Leggetter

In July I was at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin, where I watched Adam Bird, CEO and co-founder of Cronofy, give a talk called "Building APIs for Agents vs Systems.

Over the next few weeks or months, as I search for my next role, I'm hoping that I'm going to have a few conversations.

The first version of this post was published on the PostHog blog on September 30, 2021 Developer Relations exists and is executed in different ways at almost every company.

Listen to the audio version on Descript 🔉 It's been just over eight months since I left Nexmo/Vonage, where I'd been for over four years, and I'll admit to having spent a few hours reflecting upon my decision to leave.

In the first post in the series we covered discovering real-time data within your systems and applications.

This is the first part of our real-time data series.

Real-time notifications, data visualisation, communication, collaboration… Whether the aim is to improve user experience or to facilitate the management of your infrastructure, the ability to collect, process, and deliver data in real-time is critical.

This was originally written by me and published on the Pusher blog What is Real-Time?

When I tweeted my availability back on January 8th 2016 I wasn't sure if it would have any reach.

The number of companies looking to build developer relations teams is on the increase.

There are lots of real-time frameworks which exist to allow us to build real-time features and functionality into our apps.

So, you want a real-time API.

I like retrospective-style posts.

Back in February 2014 I wrote a list of 10 predictions for realtime web technologies in 2014 (well, it was 10 and 2 bonus items).

Many tout WebSocket as a long awaited transport technology for realtime communication on the web.

The callback has been invoked, the Promise☀ fulfilled.

It’s interesting how I used to always talk about the Real-time Web and Real-time Web Apps but now it really does need to be Real-time Internet Apps because IoT (The Internet of Things) now means we need to think beyond what we would traditionally class as…

For completeness the article is now available in full below and will be updated over time.

Nearly two months in, I thought I'd publish 10 realtime web technology predictions for 2014 based on how it developed in 2013 and the trends I've seen so far this year.

I recently did a short interview with Future Insights.

In the previous parts of this three part series I covered: Part 1: History, Background, Benefits & Use Cases of Realtime Part 2: Fundamentals of the Realtime Web & Realtime Web Functionality.

In part 1 of this 3-part write-up from my talk at FOWA London 2013 I covered the History, Background, Benefits & Use Cases of Realtime.

This is part 1 of a 3 part series on Choosing your Realtime Web App Tech Stack.

I quite frequently see posts on StackOverflow about how to add realtime functionality to a PHP application, or to build a realtime solution with PHP.

On Monday we published our first BladeRunnerJS (BRJS) blog post.

Over the past three weeks I've had the opportunity to investigate modern web development tools and I feel a little bit like a kid in a sweet shop.

Around 3 months ago I made the very difficult decision to leave Pusher.

Feature image by Sean Loyless I've been to quite a few conferences over the last couple of years (46 conferences and events, by my count).

Inspired by the first two talks at #stacked13 by Mike Taulty and then Maarten Balliauw I thought I'd jump straight into Windows Azure Mobile Services and build an a realtime collaborative synchronised todo list.

First I'd like to emphasise that this is a blog post on how and not why.

For a long while now I've not been getting as much out of Twitter as I used to.

I'm on the "What Developers Want" panel at the Business of APIs Conference London, arranged by Mashery.

A couple of days after the WebSockets panel at HTML5DevConf in San Francisco I gave a talk at TwilioCon.

On October 16th 2012 I sat on a HTML5DevConf WebSocket panel along with Ilya Grigorik from Google, Matt DeBergalis from Meteor and Peter Moskovits from Kaazing - the panel was chaired by Frank Greco, also of Kaazing.

It's too broad a statement to say that absolutely everybody is your customer.

I can't believe it!

A couple of weeks ago I attended HackLDN for the 2nd time.

I'm attending Hackathon London this weekend.

In my recent talks I always give realtime collaborative code editing as a great example of collaboration.

I recently gave a my Realtime Web Apps in the Wild talk at Fluent Conference in San Francisco.

I've just finished giving my presentation on HTML Web Apps in the wild at HTML5DevConf.

I can't believe it, but I've now been working for Pusher for a year.

Really pleased to see my realtime commenting system blog post appearing on Smashing Magazine.

Update My opinion, indicated in the comments below, is now: Comet is an umbrella term for all the old HTTP-based hacks and is a phrase we want to get rid of.

Over the weekend I attended the Code Africa hack weekend which was organised and hosted by The Times.

I started writing this right after the jQuery UK event but have only just found time to finish it off sitting in Stansted airport at 7am. jQuery is a funny thing; it's made JavaScript coding easy for advanced developers and accessible to web designers, and

Realtime location tracking Poll (I'm sure they'll introduce WebHooks soon) the Vodafone API and push realtime updates to a map.

When data is being delivered to web applications the chances are that you'll be displaying that data within the user interface (UI).

I gave a presentation yesterday at Edinburgh techmeetup.

The real-time web started off by just being "cool"; a quirky and fun space to be in with lots of "cool" technology.