Re: Creating A Chat?

2009/4/21 tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com>: > At 3:27 PM +0100 4/21/09, Stuart wrote: >> >> 2009/4/21 tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com>: >>  > That's about it, isn't it? >> >> You know me better than that ;-) >> >> It's a live chat system with no flash in sight. No DB either, the >> whole thing is stored in Memcached. >> >> When you post a message it should take no longer than a second to get >> to all other people present. On the server-side it has a tiny >> footprint of less than 2MB per 20 concurrent users. >> >> -Stuart > > -Stuart: > > Yeah, I figured that you would complicate matters considerably. ;-) > > And there you go again talking about stuff I'm clueless about. > > Okay, so we all can agree it's a form, right? > > And visitors can enter stuff, right? > > So what happens then? Please give me an outline of what happens and use > short words. I've asked the client if I can write a blog post with details of the implementation so I'm hesitant to say too much until I get a response from him (he's presenting in front of a pretty large crowd in London at the moment, don't think he'll get back to me until later today). Essentially it's a very lightweight and extremely simple implementation of Comet[1], the result of which is near-realtime communication from server to client. I should note that chat is not the use case for which it was created, but pnotes.org was the simplest chat implementation I could come up with for testing purposes. I've since had several ideas around how I might develop it further along these lines, but spare time is currently in short supply. -Stuart [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) -- http://stut.net/