Could MemcacheQ be Used For Cometd?

I have been wondering for a couple of weeks would it be possible to use MemcacheQ as a kind of backend for Cometd? The reason I find it interesting is that sending message to the queue(s) would be as easy as

memcache_set($memcache_obj, $memcache_queue_name, $msg, 0, 0);

In other words easy as pie.
Since there are all [...]

April 7, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Web development  No Comments

New Versions of Dojo and Plugd Released

I have not posted for about a week now, the main reason is that I am working on something very exciting, which will be features here in the comming days, if all works out.
Today, while reading the most recent posts on Ajaxian, I found the announcement of the Dojo 1.3 release. Read the announcement [...]

April 1, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Web development  No Comments

Plugd – Dojo: the missing APIs

Just today, while reading about the release of the Dojo Toolkit 1.3 beta, I learned about the plugd addition to Dojo Toolkit. The author of plugd describes it this way.

The API’s found in plugd are loosely based on “my favorite bits of jQuery” … this is not meant to be a ‘compatibility shim’ of [...]

March 9, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Development, Web development  Comments Closed

Dojo Toolkit 1.3 Beta is Out

Alex Russel just (well a couple of days ago) anounced that the beta of the newest version of Dojo Toolkit is available. I’m looking forward to the actual release of this version, it seems very very fast.
Dojo has always (since I got around to learning about javascript frameworks anyway) been my favourite js-framework. Maybe [...]

March 9, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Development, Web development  One Comment

Upload Progress Bar using Php and Dojo

For a long time I have wanted my applications to have progress bars on uploads, but I have always thought that this was impossible when the server language was php. Unless of course you wanted to do some mixing of languages, and handle the upload via perl. I, however, wanted complete integration of the code, [...]

February 25, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Development, Web development  Comments Closed