__TITLE__ Poll
tamasys on July 4th 2009 at 2:40:55 am
*hyperventilates*
You download the Client, subscribe to InstaDisc feeds that websites provide, and then when someone posts on the website or anything like that, you get INSTAntly notified via push notification. 'Tis win.
Hatkirby on July 4th 2009 at 8:05:14 am
Jul
02
Okay. I have big news. INSTADISC IS BACK. Well, it's coming back. After a half year hiatus while I felt sorry for myself (and worked on FourPuzzle which I never posted about), I finally thought of something. A way for InstaDisc to work.
I seem to recall InstaDisc dying because it's Push notification only worked for a VERY small number of people (a.k.a. just me) and without Push, InstaDisc was pretty much a highly convoluted RSS replacement. However, my work on FourChat, the Yaplet replacement that never really surfaced, led me to realize an alternative to server push.
REVERSE AJAX.
Okay, it's not actually Reverse AJAX as I'm not using JavaScript, it's Comet. But I like calling it Reverse AJAX. Anyway, Comet is the way! I have been rewriting the InstaDisc Central Server in C++ and Comet seems to work perfectly. Yayfulness.
So, you may be wondering, when will InstaDisc be completed? Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I am actually already nearly done with Central. There are only 3 API functions that I haven't yet implemented and after that, there's just the testing period.
The bad news is, along with Comet, the InstaDisc specification has changed. A lot. Because of this, the Client will have to be majorly rewritten. I'm thinking of scraping the original code and staring over in C++. So that will probably take a while. Plus, the Update Servers will also have to be rewritten, but that's not much of a problem as they're small.
So, InstaDisc is back. YAY.
Oh, and by the way, Ohats Is So Dead.
Hatkirby on July 2nd 2009 at 8:50:05 pm
I seem to recall InstaDisc dying because it's Push notification only worked for a VERY small number of people (a.k.a. just me) and without Push, InstaDisc was pretty much a highly convoluted RSS replacement. However, my work on FourChat, the Yaplet replacement that never really surfaced, led me to realize an alternative to server push.
REVERSE AJAX.
Okay, it's not actually Reverse AJAX as I'm not using JavaScript, it's Comet. But I like calling it Reverse AJAX. Anyway, Comet is the way! I have been rewriting the InstaDisc Central Server in C++ and Comet seems to work perfectly. Yayfulness.
So, you may be wondering, when will InstaDisc be completed? Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I am actually already nearly done with Central. There are only 3 API functions that I haven't yet implemented and after that, there's just the testing period.
The bad news is, along with Comet, the InstaDisc specification has changed. A lot. Because of this, the Client will have to be majorly rewritten. I'm thinking of scraping the original code and staring over in C++. So that will probably take a while. Plus, the Update Servers will also have to be rewritten, but that's not much of a problem as they're small.
So, InstaDisc is back. YAY.
Oh, and by the way, Ohats Is So Dead.
*hyperventilates*
You download the Client, subscribe to InstaDisc feeds that websites provide, and then when someone posts on the website or anything like that, you get INSTAntly notified via push notification. 'Tis win.
What about InstaDisc? by Hatkirby on December 3rd 2008
InstaDisc by Hatkirby on June 23rd 2008
RSS Cloud by Hatkirby on September 29th 2009
Project Discontinued by Hatkirby on January 8th 2009
Dead Project Poll by Hatkirby on January 16th 2010
Theoretically Related Posts
InstaDisc by Hatkirby on June 23rd 2008
RSS Cloud by Hatkirby on September 29th 2009
Project Discontinued by Hatkirby on January 8th 2009
Dead Project Poll by Hatkirby on January 16th 2010
In fact, I don't think I ever got it to begin with...