WebSocket
Book Review
For a web programmer, the promise of real-time communication with your web server sounds fantastic. Over the years I have done some research on this here and there, and usually been quickly thwarted. The WebSocket technology seems to put these things into reach. However, a quick search on Amazon for WebSocket books seems to indicate that nobody is that happy with the books that are out there.
I just finished Andrew Lombardi's book on the topic and I am mildly pleased. The thing that would have made this a five start book would have been to take his page 123 (the next to last page of the book) where he mentions "Alternate Server Implementations" into the rest of the book. The nodeJS examples he gives in this book are helpful, but there are a lot of us to operate in other languages/frameworks. I understand the basics of websocket now, but I still can't use it.
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