I am looking for solution which can push automatically a certain event (let's say RSS message) realtime to a desktop user. A toolbar app or a desktop (growl like) will be super for this push.
I have looked at few options but cannot find much info on these kind of apps.
I have looked at conduit - it sucks as there is lot of other fancy options which I am not interested in offering to users.
Please let me know.
Thanks.
G-WAN provides such an API and an example pushing stocks in a Web browser (but any client would work).
You can push whatever data format you wish. The API is very simple.
I am part of the project so I can tell that feedback is welcome: feel free to suggest modifications or new features to better match your needs.
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Which backend should I use in my app? Basically I want a user to be able to submit a number to the cloud, and have another user be able to receive it.
Is Parse.com the best solution to this?
This article might help you make a choice.
I have seen a couple of projects that initially used parse, but later on switched to helios
. Main reasons being transparency of costs and flexibility.
I want to build simple web based app, where users, for example, could push the spacebar button, and then do something further, like answer a question, and while other users at the same time only sees that this question is not available any more for answer. When user submits answer, everyone see it.
All right, here is an example. I have seen TV shows, where four players have one button, if one or two of them know answer, they hit a button, and one lamp turns on and the first is allowed to answer, while other keeps their mouths shut. I want to build the same idea, but in the web.
But problem is that, I don't know where to start, what keywords I should search for help on google and so on. I see, that it might work on HTML5, maybe JavaScript and so on.
I have idea using Ajax, but request it every second to get latest actions made seems rubbish. Also I found one service called Pusher, but it has limited users in one time, which doesn't fit my needs.
I need just ideas. Thanks.
Before you read the rest, a disclaimer: I work for Realtime.co but I do believe I can help here so I'm not trying to "pitch a sale".
You can check out Realtime (www.realtime.co). It's basically a set of tools for developers to use real time technologies on their projects. It uses websockets but does fallback to whatever the user's browser supports (such as long polling, for example).
Behind Realtime you have a one-to-one/one-to-many/many-to-many messaging system that will transport your messages to and from your users.
There's also a plus which is the fact that the Realtime framework is actually cross-platform. This means that you can even have your web users communicate with iPhone users, Android, users, Windows Phone, desktop applications, server applications, etc..
You can learn about the JavaScript API here: http://docs.xrtml.org/getting_started/hello_message.html#javascript.
You only need to register at Realtime.co as a developer and start using the free license.
I really hope that helps.
Okey, I think I will go with node.js.
Writing all this previous post, made me think in right way :)
I am really curious to know how Google Buzz and Facebook implement their comment feature which is being updated instantly. is it similar to Google wave technology? are there any resources to learn that technology and implement it to our website?
Thanks !!
I work on the Google Buzz team, so hopefully I can give you a good answer for our side of the equation. I obviously won't go into any of the confidential backend stuff, but I'm happy to address the open standards we use and the open source projects involved.
Starting in the UI space, we use technologies like Closure and GWT to build rich, responsive user interfaces. We use a technology vaguely similar to what you see in the Google App Engine Channel API to push real-time updates to the users. GAE is a really good choice for real-time web applications right now.
On the API side of things, we try to use open standards wherever possible. We use the Atom syndication format to enable feed readers to consume Buzz content, and Pubsubhubbub to enable real-time pushes of the content. In fact, we use Pubsubhubbub for our activity firehose — it's possible to subscribe to the entire real-time stream of all updates that happen in Buzz. Needless to say, this sends a massive amount of traffic to your application. On the JSON side of the equation, we use Activity Streams, and we're actively working with the community to refine and improve that specification. Our Atom feeds include Activity Streams as well, but the focus there is on syndication. All our secured API endpoints for Buzz use the OAuth standard for authorization.
On the backend, I think the only thing we're willing to say publicly is that Protocol Buffers are pretty awesome.
The technology is called Real-time web (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_web). You have many application models to achieve real-time and one of them is Comet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29). Good server to use it in your implementation is APE (http://www.ape-project.org/). It supports many common javascript frameworks. More you can check in provided links.
Just looking for some help/suggestions with this. I require my own server for an upcoming project that will be hosting users websites. I want to build a control panel the user can log into and modify their website which will be stored elsewhere on the server. This all seems easy enough, It's just managing domains and emails that confuse me.
What should I look for to manage domain names and point them to the correct website and also what would be the best way to manage email accounts/set up new ones etc. I want to avoid cPanel/WHM if possible, I'm looking to control most things through the control panel I will be building. So any suggestions on this would be useful as well, as I will be wanting to add email accounts through php (Can be done using a shell I assume?).
I will also be wanting to measure bandwidth used on the websites contained in each users directory, any suggestions on making this possible?
I'm really looking for some suggestions on what software to use to set this up, any advice would be really helpful!
Thanks,
Graeme
It sounds like you've got a lot of creative room. May I suggest a web framework? Django. With it you can build out a nice control panel, it's template system is clean and concise. It's also based on Python and thats why I suggest it. If there is a python module for it, you can use it in Django... so things like altering, creating, etc. local data/files is a breeze. you simply us Python (you can even forget it's "django"), crunch your data and then spit it out (into django... out to templates.. to display to the user).
You'll likely want AJAXY biznazz, their is a nice Django App for that, Dajax. Django has a rich and helpful community and tons of resources. Just hop on GitHub.com and search for Django, You'll find tons of stuff.
Im building a DNS Control Panel with it. Which sounds like a minimal version of what you're doing.
Is it possible to embed git in the iPhone app? Only in a passive mode, i.e. to be able to read commit messages (with date and user) and diffs given some online git repository in order to present it in some readable table views?
I'm one of the co-authors of cocoagit, which is currently an unfinished implementation of the core git functionality in Objective-C. There has not been much activity in the last 6 months. Unfortunately, it is not far quite far enough along to do everything you need. We can read commits, and have preliminary support for cloning repos, but we can't do diffs yet. Geoff and I would both like to have more time to work on it again, but in the meantime, we would gladly welcome any contributions.
Alternatively, I second the recommendations of previous posters to consider using github, or building your own web service to provide the necessary data.
Git (the command-line client) has been ported to jailbroken iPhones.
It would be easier to write a webapp that generated iPhone specific formatted output. Anything is possible on the iPhone, but to get an App on it you have to pay the $99 to join the club and then run the gauntlet of the Approval Process. A web app doesn't have to be approved by anyone.
It would be possible if you could statically compile the required git functions into your executable. It would require cloning the repository to the device’s disk though.
I’m not sure what your use-case is, but using a hosted website such as GitHub, or making your own web service if that is not possible, would likely be more sensible.
Not sure if this github client for iphone would offer any pointers
http://github.com/schacon/igithub/
It is definitely possible. The BugBranch app does this. According to the about section of the app, it uses libgit2 and objective-git.
You've got a couple options:
1) Get git(1) cross compiling for ARM and the iPhone and then embed them.
2) Use Dulwich and write a small tool you can drive with NSTask that does what you need (don't link your code directly to this or copy their implementation -- it's GPL). This is likely easier than option 1.
3) Write a web server which does what you need and then have your iPhone client access this.
It really depends on what you're doing, why you're doing it, and what infrastructure you've already got set up which option will be the best. For instance, if you already have any sort of server component already (e.g. for push notifications) I would recommend option 3.