Tag Archives: Chat

The making of MBChat v3 – part 2 coordinating multiple activities

Posted on 01-Jul-2010

In the previous blog article I discuss a process which would take several seconds to run. Obviously it is started as soon in the load process for the initial web page as possible.

Several other activities have to happen, such as loading the sound libraries, the dom has to be ready, the user has to have entered his username and password and it has to have been validated before the user can enter chat.

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The making of MBChat v3 – part 1 introducing Nested Closure Programming

Posted on 15-Jun-2010

MB chat is an Ajax chat application that I built for Melinda’s Backups. It was originally so that the leadership team could hold meetings without resorting to e-mail, but it became more of a general social thing for the members of the web site. In order for the software to work out if someone had said anything new, it polled a database every two seconds. Not something that would scale particularly but OK for v1. That was until Melinda herself came to chat one time, and a large number of people tried to come in at the same time.

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