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September 18 2010

October 18 2008

August 21 2008

Real-Time Web Collaboration Tool

My master's thesis project was a web collaboration tool that I felt people needed to explore ideas, resolve issues, track progress, and be more productive.
Availability, scalability and highly asynchronous communication were a priority, enabling efficiency and full interactivity.

This is simply a prototype, but I believe it to be a better implementation due to the usage of web standards, best practices, and long-lived http connections instead of polling.

This amounts to the addition of functionality to a web app of this type, which is commonly accomplished through proprietary technologies, thus making the web a conversation and not a stale context.

-- Technologies --
PostgreSQL
Lighttpd with mod_fdajax
RubyOnRails
Prototype, Scriptaculous and DojoToolkit
Openfire jabberd
Tigris Subversion server

-- Thanks to --
Mário Zenha Rela
Grzegorz Daniluk
Alex Russel

-- Soundtrack --
Boss on the Boat - Suzuki - Tosca
John Tomes - Suzuki - Tosca

(Page loads are a bit slow due to my 6 year old powerbook at the time, having all the servers running in localhost and the rails app generating too much debug info.Sorry about that :1)

Scroll down at vimeo.com/1572082 to download the high quality version.

July 08 2008

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