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The Browser and Beyond. April 3rd 2008
Symposium Hall, Edinburgh
Enjoy a day of the web's best speakers discussing the future of information online.
Comet: Moving towards a real-time Web
The Ajax revolution has increased user expectations for web application interactivity, and resulted in a growing demand for real-time information.
Comet is an umbrella term for a set of techniques that enable live updates of web pages as soon as a significant event occurs. On the server-side, a different set of technologies is needed to handle the challenges of event-driven applications.
Simon Willison, Freelance Developer
About Simon
Simon Willison is a consultant on OpenID and client- and server-side Web development, and a co-creator of the Django Web framework.
Before going freelance Simon worked on Yahoo!'s Technology Development team, and prior to that at the Lawrence Journal-World, an award winning local newspaper in Kansas. Simon maintains a popular Web development weblog at http://simonwillison.net/