Musings of a Programmer

Rarely-used blog of Dan Harper.
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Today we're going to create a small realtime web application with FuelPHP on the server, Backbone.js on the client and using the Pusher API for the realtime aspects. The application we'll be building is a modern take on my classic "Shoutbox" PHP demo application I originally wrote six years ago for Nettuts+, and covered again not long after in Ruby on Rails.

This time, it's a Backbone.js take on the application and we're bringing into the year 2012 with live syncing between users without refreshing the page!

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