#messaging

If delivery is going to take a non-trivial amount of time, you should focus on delivering to the people who are going to notice first.

"Most people throw around the term “pub/sub” to describe any kind of eventing/messaging – but I think this term fails to adequately communicate the abstraction. Yes, ultimately, something is subscribing to what something else is publishing. But the level at which publishers and subscribers are encapsulated has the power to make a good pattern turn to the dark side. So, what’s the difference?"

"Most people throw around the term “pub/sub” to describe any kind of eventing/messaging – but I think this term fails to adequately communicate the abstraction. Yes, ultimately, something is subscribing to what something else is publishing. But the level at which publishers and subscribers are encapsulated has the power to make a good pattern turn to the dark side. So, what’s the difference?"

"In October 2009 I started a project called Notify.io and a month later announced it. I talked about how it will bring notifications to the web. Now that it’s basically alpha complete, I’ll give you a quick walkthrough of what makes it so great."

"Resque is our Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later."

I have an iPod Touch, so I have the media. I want the messaging. "In all, Palm put as much effort into making the webOS a first-rate messaging experience as Apple did into making the iPhone a first-rate media experience, and with just as much success. So if most of your communication consists of Twitter, email, SMS, and IM with the people in your Facebook network and/or Gmail contacts list, then the Pre will do for your personal messaging what your work BlackBerry does for your business messaging."

"Here is a simple example that shows how to connect to an XMPP / Jabber server, join a room, and send a message to the room."

"This is a toy in-memory (very much non-durable) queue, with a client and server in Python and a server in C++ -- the results of an evening's hacking with Facebook's Thrift protocol/RPC generator. "

"Since the thing is a security nightmare, it might as well be a complete and total nightmare, like the ones where you wake up and then find out you haven't actually woken up"

"Ten years from now, we will be using SMS text messages to change the channel on the televison."

"Let it mull in your brain for a second: RSS + SMS. For free. Think about it."