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For anyone that lives near Atlanta, this was recorded at http://www.meetup.com/atlantaruby/. Our next meetup will be November 14th if you want to hear more awesome talks like this one. </shameless plug>

Oh yeah I've heard great things about Urban Airship. Also I noticed a new heroku add-on that looks pretty nifty as well.

https://addons.heroku.com/boxcar

Oh sorry. Yeah we do this in our app (not automatically in the gem).

Couldn't find that in the guide (reading feedback from the same socket). I might have missed it though.

And yep. We're using the enhanced protocol while opening another connection to the feedback service. I just followed this section of the docs.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Networ...

Sweet. Now accepting pull requests :)

Interesting. We haven't hit that issue yet.

Hmmm. We also haven't had any issues with feedback affecting our outgoing messages. Yeah we just check for messages from the feedback socket after sending a notification (as Apple's guide recommends) but we're not doing anything fancy like waiting for a response. Sounds cool though.

Nice! We keep a single connection open using the standalone gem.

But yeah you're right it would be an issue if you were connecting to Apple's servers in a resque worker for example, since the socket would be opened in a new child for each job. I bet you could get around this though by opening a socket in the parent and using it in each child process. Reconnecting might be a little trickier though.

apnmachine looks pretty sweet. I'll have to check it out if I need something like that in the future.

Great suggestions. It would be awesome if you contributed it to grocer as well :P. It's still in active development though so you may find some of these enhancements in grocer at some point in the near future. Thanks man!

Perfect timing right after Start Atlanta a week ago.

Highgroove Studios (http://highgroove.com)

Atlanta, GA or Remote

Ruby and Ruby on Rails Developers

We focus on Back-end Ruby on Rails Development, using an Iterative/Agile process. Learn more about the position (http://highgroove.com/jobs) and check us out on github (http://github.com/highgroove).

Most of the HTTP and PBC apis are the same so everything that has already been implemented should still work. I know they haven't added official support for secondary indexes, but I hacked them together real quick here: https://github.com/highgroove/ripple

http://kodingen.com/ is alright.

Since you're already using jquery, try flot, http://code.google.com/p/flot/. It has a simple api, good documentation, pretty extensible and works in all browsers (with google's excanvas script for ie).

Are you guys hiring? Also, what other startups do you think are on the same level of awesome as GitHub?

Nice. I was actually working on a similar project for a minimal realtime chat. Couch's new _changes api is pretty nifty for stuff like this. (http://books.couchdb.org/relax/reference/change-notification...)