Hi Steve,
Have you continued, or do you plan to continue development where it was left off?
Well, it's something I've only be toying with. I can handle all the specific Twisted fixes I'd like to make: - handling lost connections gracefully - proper use of twistd and daemonization - massive code cleanups The only problem is that I'm not that knowledgeable about the Javascript browser hacks they've employed - their Orbited.js is more than half "magic" to me (probably due to me not having an opportunity to work on a large js project). It's something that I'd like to get into, if someone is willing to take the lead on the javascript side. It could potentially be as simple as slotting in js.io (http://github.com/mcarter/js.io), which Orbited.js has apparently become, and which appears to have been the plan for Orbited 0.8.
They all seem to have gone off to play with node.js instead.
I don't *really* blame them, considering most of the project's merit lay in the Javascript realm, and node.js is basically a (less featurful) version of Twisted for Javascript (of course with the added bonus of using a heavily JITed and optimized Javascript VM).
Very cool, I hadn't seen that before.
Yes, very neat. Haven't done much with it, but I think it's a real winner when you're doing something simple like long-polling/ broadcasting from a queue. Cheers, Reza -- Reza Lotun mobile: +44 (0)7521 310 763 email: rlotun@gmail.com work: reza@tweetdeck.com twitter: @rlotun