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After evaluating the impact of our new live updating code for the “Now Playing” section of the left sidebar, I’ve decided to limit the live updates to registered, logged in users. At our normal peak traffic times, with thousands of browsers checking the server at 30 second intervals via Ajax, ...
LGF, Tech Note, Javascript, Now Playing, Music, Amazon, Optimization
The “Now Playing” section of our left sidebar, which is set up to show the music or other weird sounds that are currently playing in iTunes on my machine, now updates in an “almost live” fashion. With Ajax and a Javascript timer, it checks the server every 20 seconds to ...
Whenever the “Now Playing” widget appears in our left sidebar, I get emails from readers asking how they can hear that music I’m listening to, playing so tantalizingly near yet so frustratingly far. Well, the short answer is, “You can’t.” Not via LGF anyway, since I don’t want to call ...
Tonight’s technical update is to our “Now Playing” feature, which shows the tune I’m currently listening to in iTunes. Previously, this feature was driven by Sputnik, a “widget” written for a Mac utility called Konfabulator, that later became Yahoo Widgets. Sputnik watched iTunes, and whenever a new tune started playing, ...