This post mentions some of the issues we faced while implementing XMPP chat with ejabberd server and solutions for it. Our’s is a rails app that uses ejabberd as chat server.
Our requirement is that when a new user signs up to our app, a new ejabberd account needs to be creat...
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We used macman’s juggernaut for realtime push notifications and chat for one of the rails apps. It was used in a 6 year old legacy app with socket.io’s long polling mechanism. nodejs used was of version 0.2.4. Things have changed so much in the realtime app’s space since then and juggernaut is deprecated now.
We needed to upgrade juggernaut to get the following -
We had to upgrade so...
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Below are some of the details on how to convert a traditional synchronous rails webapp to a complete ajax app. Will try to list out a the gems used for this and lessons learnt during this process.
The main reason we wanted to do this is to keep the user on the same page through out the interactions. T...
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Slides from one of our tech talks where a few tips and tools for JS apps are mentioned. This is just a first talk in the series of javascript related discussions.
Topics include -
It is common for the product development world to categorize organizations as either ‘Product centric’ or ‘Customer centric’ and stress on the point that you need to be ‘Customer centric’ to sremain successful. In my opinion, there are no separate entities called ‘Product centric’ and ‘Customer centric’ . Every product development company needs to be ‘product centric’ and every product being built needs to be ‘Customer centric’. This results in compounding the customer satisfaction. Especi...
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