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Jacob Rus
Core Developer, Orbited

After two years at Harvard College, Jacob Rus spent a year working for One Laptop per Child, in Cambridge, MA, splitting his time between user interface design, Python and C programming, and writing. He spent a second year as a full-time developer for Orbited, the Open Source Comet server. Jacob has since returned to Harvard to complete his degree. He discusses the future of web standards and current usability techniques for HTTP push communication with bi-weekly articles for the technical publication Comet Daily.

Sessions

2:35pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Orbited: Enabling Comet for the Masses

Python
Location: E145

Michael Carter (Orbited), Jacob Rus (Orbited)

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HTTP push-style web interaction, known as Comet, is a cutting-edge technique for creating truly interactive, real-time web applications. This talk will teach developers to painlessly incorporate Comet into their new and existing web applications using Orbited, the cross-platform, cross-browser, and cross-language Comet server. Read more.