Articles by Phil Leggetter

Head of Developer Evangelism at @pusher. Author, blogger, speaker, Realtime Web Technology evangelist. @BladeRunnerJS advocate. I'm the co-author of Realtime Web Apps: With HTML5 WebSocket, PHP, and jQuery and I write articles for Smashing Magazine, .net magazine, Programmable Web, on my own blog and anywhere else I get an opportunity to create content. My passions include developer experience, customer service are helping people realise the benefits of realtime web technologies, and then use them to build the next generation of interactive and engaging web apps.

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How to Build a Realtime JQuery Plugin

Back in January this year jQuery announced a new plugins registry, so now seemed like a great time to write a tutorial combining building a jQuery plugin with my passion - realtime web technologies. Realtime web technologies make it really easy to add live content to previously static web pages. Live content can bring a page...