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Before getting started, this is a down to earth introduction to asynchronous programming and not a mathematical analysis. It is possible to make the whole subject seem so complicated that it is a ...

Say that you're developing an tool that let's users customize it via JavaScript. Some of the common functions that will be called from the scripts are fundamentally asynchronous - they ultimately are ...

Comet has popularized asynchronous non-blocking HTTP programming, making it practically indistinguishable from reverse Ajax, also known as server push. In this article, Gregor Roth takes a wider view ...