do what you love tag:blog.nicksieger.com,2005:Typo Typo 2007-08-31T16:49:21+00:00 Nick Sieger urn:uuid:5096df59-652a-4397-9fc1-592d0fe78d61 2006-05-12T03:25:00+00:00 2007-08-31T16:49:21+00:00 <p>In this podcast from minnebar 1, Jamie Thingelstad, CTO of marketwatch.com, describes a real-world, scalable application of asynchronous javascript that uses an event-driven model rather than polling.</p> <p>I enjoyed the session and think it&#8217;s worth a listen &#8211; there are some interesting approaches discussed, including a back-off strategy that helps give the server a chance to tell its javascript clients to not hit it so hard when it&#8217;s under duress.</p> <p><a href="/files/minnebar20060506thingelstad.mp3">Download the podcast here</a>, or put <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/nicksieger">my feed</a> in iTunes or another podcatcher to have the podcast downloaded for you. I should be posting more minnebar podcasts in the coming days.</p>