kaazing - Kevin Hoyt

Publish-Subscribe Everywhere

Kaazing Gateway brings many awesome new superpowers to your stack. Among those is the ever-sexy enterprise WebSocket (pioneered at Kaazing) feature. This feature allows you to tap into enterprise messaging systems, and leverage the publish-subscribe pattern in your applications. Publish-subscribe is catching on everywhere these days. Here are a few

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Tetris with Virtual Controller

As somebody educated in Information Technology, I have always had an admiration of game developers. Despite the interactive experience and immersive graphics, there is just some black magic in the architecture that leaves me in awe. While I have had my hand at small games in the past, I decided

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Real-Time Smart Buildings

What is your favorite building? The office? The coffee shop down the street? Your home? Maybe a shed out back? Whatever the case, there is no shortage of ways to augment your home with IoT (Internet of Things). Google Nest, Philips Hue, or WeMo give you classic request/response control

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First Steps with Intel Edison

There are a lot of SoC (System on a Chip) devices out there these days. I have written about the Arduino Yun in the past. Today I would like to introduce you to the Intel Edison. At about the quarter of the size of a credit card (35.5mm x

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Android Chat Application

In a previous post I discussed using the open source Kaazing Gateway AMQP Java client library. This approach allows us to build a Java desktop chat client running against our free "sandbox" environment. You might be inclined to think that this lets us build the chat client on

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Java Chat Application

If you look around the Kaazing open source web site, you will see a lot of information about delivering real-time solutions on the Web. This is not by accident - we a strong believers in the future of web standards. You can also use Kaazing Gateway with other platforms as

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AMQP Breakdown

The open source Kaazing Gateway uses Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP) to transport your messages from one point to the next. It does this by leveraging the IETF WebSocket protocol. The connection from the browser may use the W3C WebSocket API if available, but will also fall back to other

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Web Chat Application

In any given programming language "Hello World" is likely the first thing you will learn to do. The "Hello World" for real-time architectures is a chat application. In this post you will build your very own Web-based chat application. Alternatively, you might also want to check

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Tic Tac Toe Light

I had the great privilege of being a speaker at HTML5 Developer Conference in San Francisco recently. It was the second HTML5 Dev Conf I have presented at, with the first one being October 2013. This time, I paired with Frank Greco to present a session entitled "WebSockets: Past,

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Real-Time Quadcopter Telemetry

Modern commercial aircraft have what is commonly referred to as a "black box". The black box is a flight data recorder. It captures numerous sensor data points across the aircraft, and records them for playback in the case of a catastrophe. As we have seen lately however, the