Trends in Comet, by Kevin Nilson and Michael Carter

1. Comet Trends By: Kevin Nilson & Michael Carter

2. About the Speakers Kevin and Michael worked together on Confetto which was used last year at Code Camp and Devoxx. Confetto is a real time Comet Application used at conferences to allow attendees to ask questions, vote on which question to answer next, and to chat with other attendees. Michael is currently working on a new protocol for Comet called “Comet Session”, that Kevin is planning to help write the Java implementation for.

3. About Kevin Nilson Kevin Nilson is currently a Principal Software Architect for a Large Financial Firm in Silicon Valley. He is the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG. He is also the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group and Assistant Organizer of the Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup. Prior to his current work, Kevin had extensive industry software engineering and consulting experience with companies such as: Pfizer, Northrop Grumman, and AT&T Corporation. He also worked part-time as an adjunct professor at the College of San Mateo. He is also a core contributer for confetto.org, a web based real-time open source conference collaboration tool used at conferences such as: Silicon Valley Code Camp and Devoxx. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer.

4. About Michael Carter Michael Carter is an expert on highly scalable, real-time web application architectures. He is an officially recognized contributor to the W3C HTML5 specification, particularly for his work with the WebSocket proposal. He is the founder and lead of the Orbited project (http://www.orbited.org), an MIT licensed Comet server built for high-performance browser networking. He is currently a freelance consultant and technical lead for OSSLine (www.ossline.org), a Silicon Valley non-profit that provides technical and legal infrastructure to a host of Open Source projects, including Orbited, the browser network protocols projectjs.io(http://js.io), and the python message queue MorbidQ (http://www.morbidq.com). Michael also writes network games as the CTO for the mobile games company Xio Interactive (http://xiointeractive.com).

5. Agenda Comet background (Kevin) What is comet, History, Implementations Obstacles implementing Comet (Michael) Browsers, Usability, Intermediary, Failure, Library Into to CometD and Atmosphere (Java) (Kevin) Intro to Orbited (Michael) Practical CometD Application Development (Kevin) Comet Session Protocol (Michael) http://orbited.org/blog/files/csp.html Problem, Server-side, Client-side, Implementations

6. Upcoming Events Panel on Comet (Silicon Valley Web Builder) princecomet.eventbrite.com (please register) Panel moderated by Kevin Nilson about Comet Michael Carter will be panelist along with Alex Russell, Ted Goddard, Greg Wilkins, Dylan Schiemann Google, 10/21/2008 Wed 6:00-9:00pm ScallingCometD to the Masses (Devoxx, Antwerp Belgium) Kevin Nilson will be presenting Bejing China (Details not finalized, December 2009) Kevin Nilson will be presenting

7. Thankyou JavaClimber.com (Kevin’s Homepage) Orbited.org CometDaily.com CometD.org atmosphere.dev.java.net http://js.io http://orbited.org/svn/csp/trunk