Did Google Reader just turn on full PuSH support?

by Josh Fraser on February 18, 2010

Jesse claims the answer is yes.

This is a test to find out for myself.

Update: It worked!  If your blog is PubSubHubbub enabled any new posts will show up in Google Reader immediately instead of taking the usual 20-30 minutes.  Now you have more incentive than ever to get PubSubHubbub support on your blog!

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My interview on Mixergy

by Josh Fraser on February 15, 2010

If you haven't heard the news yet, Rob and I have decided to shut down EventVue.  As you can probably imagine, it was a incredibly hard decision.  We've poured the last three years of our lives into EventVue and it's tough to say goodbye. One of ...
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Updated PubSubHubbub plugin for WordPress MU

by Josh Fraser on January 23, 2010

I just updated my PubSubHubbub Wordpress plugin to work with multi-user installations of Wordpress and also verified that everything still works with version 2.9.1 of Wordpress. If you haven't installed the plugin yet, I encourage you to check it out. ...
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My talk from The AJAX Experience

by Josh Fraser on January 19, 2010

Back in September 2008 I had the privilege of speaking at The AJAX Experience in Boston.  I talked about designing great forms and covered a lot of my own pet-peeves with forms on the web and shared some of the things I've learned along the way. Today ...
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Openness and security go hand in hand

by Josh Fraser on January 19, 2010

I just saw the post on Mashable about Microsoft downplaying the IE security hole. The one quote that caught my attention was from Microsoft's UK security chief Cliff Evans. He said: “The net effect of switching [from IE] is that you will end up ...
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Backwards compatible window.postMessage()

by Josh Fraser on January 15, 2010

Simple cross-domain messaging This blog post explains how to implement a backwards compatible version of window.postMessage() to handle all your cross-domain messaging needs. If you’re in a hurry, you can skip directly to the demo or just grab ...
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No risk, no reward

by Josh Fraser on January 5, 2010

If you don't miss a flight every now and then, you're wasting too much time hanging around in airports. If you're a mountain biker without any scars, maybe it's time to earn some. If you haven't wiped out in a while, maybe it's time to push the ...
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The bell

by Josh Fraser on December 6, 2009

Jeff Bezos loves to tell the story of the bell that rang in the Amazon office every time they made a sale.  Of course, after a while it began ringing so often that they had to turn it off.  The important thing was that the bell served as a constant ...
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If only we lived in an ideal world

by Josh Fraser on November 29, 2009

After my last post on the importance of IP addresses, I emailed a few friends I respect for feedback.  I'm glad I did because there's an important aspect I neglected to address.  Brett Slatkin made this comment: The post makes sense. What I'd focus ...
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Everything comes down to the IP address

by Josh Fraser on November 20, 2009

Two of the companies I've been most excited about recently are SendGrid and Superfeedr.  These two companies have a lot in common.  For starters, both companies have products aimed squarely at developers like myself.  Both solve real pain points that ...
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