I just received word that my talk titled “Comet for highly scalable applications” has been accepted to AjaxExperience. From the look of it, AjaxExperience will be a much nicer conference than AjaxWorld, at least in how they treat speakers. I’ve had personal assistance with scheduling from the conference organizer and they are paying my airfare. I’ll be giving a similar talk to that which I gave at AjaxWorld. As I’ve mentioned before, you can find those slides here, and the speaking outline here.
Orbited is coming along nicely. I’ve gone over all the patches that were submitted in the last month. I accepted a few directly, but most I had to rewrite. The reason is that we are skipping Orbited 0.1.6 and moving directly to Orbited 0.2.0 as most of the codebase has been changed. There’s been a complete restructuring so it’ll be easier for developers to get involved in specific parts of the project without understanding everything. In particular, creating and understanding transports will be very straightforward and will not require changing the Orbited source. We also moved away from the pipe-based urls like “/location|user,session,transport” in favor of standard query strings: “/location?user=x&session=y&transport=z”. I personally liked the look of the old urls, but the end-user never sees them, so the result was that Orbited sometimes breaks ie with no tangible benefit.
Stay tuned over the next week for Orbited 0.2.0. We’ll need help porting the documentation, though only minor changes will be needed in the javascript and application code.
