Saturday, January 28, 2012

Tag Cloud Animated User Control

Sat 2012.01.28

An ongoing development project includes an animated output of active feed content based on word context and is currently testing a Silverlight version. Consideration is being given to develop a dashboard geared towards developers allowing functional analysis of derived cloud data. Visual feedback provides keen insight to ongoing feed viewing requests.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

PubSubHub Hub Notification Service

Sun 2012.01.15

In an attempt to reduce the amount of feed update traffic, Sleuthware has deployed a RSS feed notification hub service. One of the first developed entirely in C#, lays the foundation to provide instant, near real-time notification of feeds that have been updated. In this manner, a client tool need not continuously ping the aggregator database to determine if feed updates are available.

Feed publishers provide the feed destination URL that is picked up by the hub. Aggregator and viewer subscribers provide a callback notification method URL, that the hub then uses to notify upon requested feed changes. All web traffic occurs using asynchronous web services.