Real-Time Web Collaboration Tool

My master's thesis project was a web collaboration tool that I felt people needed to explore ideas, resolve issues, track progress, and be more productive.
Availability, scalability and highly asynchronous communication were a priority, enabling efficiency and full interactivity.

This is simply a prototype, but I believe it to be a better implementation due to the usage of web standards, best practices, and long-lived http connections instead of polling.

This amounts to the addition of functionality to a web app of this type, which is commonly accomplished through proprietary technologies, thus making the web a conversation and not a stale context.

-- Technologies --
PostgreSQL
Lighttpd with mod_fdajax
RubyOnRails
Prototype, Scriptaculous and DojoToolkit
Openfire jabberd
Tigris Subversion server

-- Thanks to --
Mário Zenha Rela
Grzegorz Daniluk
Alex Russel

-- Soundtrack --
Boss on the Boat - Suzuki - Tosca
John Tomes - Suzuki - Tosca

(Page loads are a bit slow due to my 6 year old powerbook at the time, having all the servers running in localhost and the rails app generating too much debug info.Sorry about that :1)

Scroll down at http://vimeo.com/1572082 to download the high quality version.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• collaboration
• comet
• push
• web
• webapp
• fdajax
• tool
• ajax
• productivity
• thesis
• project
• management
• organization
• web2.0
• svg
• sketchpad
• im
• integration
• workspace
• fullduplex
• asynchronous
• xmpp
• jabber

[YouTubbingGeorge]

Cool song.