Microsoft Just Press Play Update

by rgk8573 on Thu 15 December 2011 // Posted in legacy // under legacy foss@rit

Hello all. Below I have included a list of links based on my research on how to accomplish this goal. Up until this point, I have started uploading and installing Drupal and Wordpress on my own domain, and the HTML5 Boilerplate on my people.rit.edu server account. I will supply these links once the default sites are up. Based on the resources below, I am going to test out the Disqus plugin for Drupal and the Roots theme for Wordpress first.

** More resources may be added as testing unfolds **

Examples of real-time sites:

  • Slickdeals Live - Real-time deal posts including rankings for products and user comments
  • Identi.ca - must press the play button at the top to see it in action
  • FriendFeed - Basically Facebook, with real-time chat for photos and other content

Possible options for implementation:

(RANK 1 - because Drupal is familiar to RIT already) Disqus:

* [Disqus Install Options](http://disqus.com/admin/install/)
* [Drupal Plugin](http://disqus.com/admin/drupal/)

(RANK 2 - I am familiar with WordPress already and this theme uses HTML5 Boilerplate and 960.gs )

* [WordPress Theme based on 960.gs](http://www.rootstheme.com/ )

(RANK 3 - Might be an interesting option)

* [TIDEinteracive](http://tideinteractive.com/2011/05/html5-boilerplate-960-gs-tide-interactive-html5-960/)

Books with possibly valuable information:

* [Professional XMPP Programming with JavaScript and jQuery](http://professionalxmpp.com/)

Other Resources:

* [http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/clients/](http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/clients/)
* [http://blog.notifixio.us/post/73594997/how-can-we-do-a-realtime-web](http://blog.notifixio.us/post/73594997/how-can-we-do-a-realtime-web)
* [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/five_sites_that_let_your_experience...](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/five_sites_that_let_your_experience_the_real-time.php)
* [http://wiki.webhooks.org/w/page/13385124/FrontPage](http://wiki.webhooks.org/w/page/13385124/FrontPage)
* [http://code.google.com/p/simpleupdateprotocol/](http://code.google.com/p/simpleupdateprotocol/)