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GeekUp Liverpool

When

19:00 Tuesday April 29 2008

Where

3345 Parr Street, Liverpool L1 4JN

Description

GeekUp Liverpool takes place on the last Tuesday of every month. It's a grass-roots knowledge sharing and networking social for folks involved or interested in all forms of technology and creative media.

Due to a rather low turnout at the last event, Martin's going to have another crack at his talk.

Comet is a term coined by Alex Russell of the Dojo Foundation to describe the various methods (or hacks!) by which web servers can "push" data to browsers using just JavaScript and HTML on the client side. These techniques allow input from users of a page to be shared between all users without the need to continually request updates from the server. This opens the way for live chat, collaborative document editing, and more.

The talk will describe:

• The Bayeaux protocol that Dojo have defined as a standard way of adding Comet support to web servers. Don't worry, I won't go into much detail!
• Examples of sites which already use Comet, and other potential uses.
• The advantages and disadvantages of Comet over browser plugins like Flash, and standard techniques like periodic refresh.
• How this kind of thing will hopefully become standard in HTML 5, doing away with all these hacks!

There should be at least one interactive demo, a browser based chat application (the "Hello World" of Comet), which people should be able to use if they bring their laptops (and the wifi is working).

Directions, (you'll need them). 3345 Parr St is not clearly advertised on the street. Use Google StreetView to see the door to the bar. It's next to the Parr St Garage.

Upcoming

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/452594/

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