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Phil Leggetter (Guest Author)

Phil Leggetter is a head of developer evangelism at Pusher. He's been building and using realtime web technologies since 2001 and is excited about the use cases and the potential for the technology as ever.

57 posts from Phil Leggetter

Using Pusher to power cisimple’s real-time API

This is a guest post by Kevin Rohling, founder/ceo of cisimple. Here at cisimple we’re really excited to be announcing t...

Customer Stories

Instantly scalable realtime web apps with Pusher OpenShift

By combining Pusher and OpenShift you get both the scalable realtime and backend infrastructure – everything you need to...

pusher-js 3.0.0 released

It’s been a while since we released a major version of pusher-js. In this release we’ve completely removed the Flash tra...

Building a multiplayer motion-detection interface in 30 lines of code

This tutorial shows how to build a multiplayer motion detection interface in just 30 lines of code using the Pusher real...

PHP UK 2015: Pragmatic, Honest & Progressive

The PHP UK Conference was a demonstration of pragmatism, honesty and progression; something that I feel we’re fortunatel...

New and improved docs

Find out how the Pusher team improved the documentation....

London WebSummit Hackday

Read more about the London WebSummit hackday!...

Pusher Realtime Web Talk at TwilioCon 2012

A couple of days after the WebSockets panel at HTML5DevConf in San Francisco I gave a talk at TwilioCon. We were asked t...

Filtrand: a demo of Webhooks

With webhooks, Pusher can repost interesting events that occur in your app to a URL of your choice. We’ve built a demo, ...

Win prizes for making your app more awesome

Enter the Pusher Challenge for a chance to win a shiny 11” Macbook Air and a ticket to the Keeping it Realtime conferenc...

Join us in the HTML5 game revolution at onGameStart

Join Pusher at the onGameStart in Warsaw, Poland on 22nd to 23rd September 2011....

BattleHack Tokyo 2015

Pusher and BattleHack Tokyo 2015...

Pusher at Falsy Values

Pusher team at the Falsy Values, a True JavaScript event, which was held in Warsaw, Poland 2011....

Completing an integration test with the Pusher JavaScript Library

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to complete a a web apps integration test with the Pusher JavaScript API by cr...

Client events released

What are client events? For a while now we have been running a beta of a feature we call ‘client events’. This allows a ...

SSL Everywhere!

Secured connections and privacy are a must, particularly if you handle sensitive or confidential customer data. What’s m...

How to Add Message History to your Pusher Apps

In this tutorial, I will cover how to create a solution to retrieve a message history and how to retrieve messages misse...

Epic Pusher Hacks at the Guardian in London

On Saturday I attended a hack day organised by Apigee and hosted in The Guardien offices in London. It’s great to go to ...

Exposing the weird and wonderful uses of Pusher

Use case details on how Pusher was used as an interactive art exhibit in Australia called Vol No1 in 2011....

Pusher inaugural hack day

We want to make sure that we are providing as much value as possible by making it easy to quickly build secure real-time...

Pusher Now Available Through Windows Azure Mobile Services Platform

Pusher is now Available Through Windows Azure Mobile Services Platform. Our first tutorial covers how to synchronise Tod...

How to Build RealTime Laravel Apps with Pusher

Here's how to build realtime Laravel apps with Pusher....

Ways to use Pusher at the Mozilla Festival

We’re excited about attending the Mozilla Festival from Friday 4th to Sunday 6th of November and I thought it was worth ...

Pusher and Twilio sponsoring PHP UK 2013 Hackspace and Hackathon

We’re stoked to announce that we’re sponsoring the PHP Conference UK 2013 hackspace and hackathon with our friends at Tw...

How to add real-time notifications to your Django app with django-pusherable

Aaron Bassett talks about how and why he built django-pusherable, a mixin library for Django Class-based views to add re...

Tweek: Using Pusher to improve our dev process

We’re always on the lookout for cool and innovative ways of using Pusher so when Klaus Hartl of Tweek told us about how ...

Realtime Web Workshop at Chicago Web Conf

We’re heading to Chicago Web Conf this October! The conference is co-organised by our friends at DevMynd with workshops ...

A Realtime focus at HTML5 Dev Conf

I’m just back from San Francisco having attended a couple of events. The first was HTML5DevConf where it was great to se...

Shakey has it all: Realtime, Mobile, Browser and User & Audience Engagement

It was great to attend Culture Hack Scotland last weekend. Some great apps were created but, of course, I was particular...

Customer Stories

Discovering the Real-Time Data in Your Apps

Real-time notifications, data visualisation, communication, collaboration… Whether the aim is to improve user experience...

Pusher & Twilio – Easing the move to a Connected World

Automating the control of power outlets is a great example of how we are moving to a connected world. Hosted services ar...

Fostering the Realtime Community

Silicon Milk Roundabout – May 26 & 27, London - We’re on the looking for some awesome people to join Pusher and help sha...

pusher-js 1.12 released

Earlier this month, we pushed out version 1.12 of the Pusher JavaScript library. It contains a couple of new features th...

London Realtime Hack Weekend

Pusher is teaming up with our friends at GoSquared, Twilio, Geckoboard and RabbitMQ to arrange London Realtime – a hackf...

What came before WebSockets?

How did we (developers) achieve realtime browser push before WebSockets and what were the downfalls of those technologie...

Improving the experience for users with flaky connections

This tutorial describes how to use Pusher to expose a user's connection status. Optionally, it lets you or your users ex...

onGameStart: a bright future for HTML5 games

onGameStart was a success for one very simple but fundamentally important reason: the people who attended the event made...

Pusher JS 1.10 released

We update the Pusher JavaScript client library fairly frequently, but in this update we’re making a few public API chang...

Backbone.js, now real time with Pusher

This tutorial demonstrates how to add realtime to your Backbone.js in less than 30 minutes with Pusher! It should provid...

Build realtime web apps together

Wouldn’t it be handy if you could give access to your Pusher apps to friends and colleagues so that you can easily work ...

You've Discovered your Real-Time Data. What Can You Do With It?

You've discovered the real-time data in your apps? What features you build with that real-time data?...

Results from the first Pusher Challenge

We had an overwhelming response to the competition, so a massive thanks to everybody who took part! Entries used Pusher ...

Pusher at #hackLDN

We love hackathons! They’re great for building awesome hacks, meeting cool like-minded people, learning, innovation and ...

Add Realtime to PhoneGap for Android

Easily add realtime to our PhoneGap Android or iOS application with Pusher....

#APIHackDay #London #FTW

Pusher took part in an APIHackDay in London. It was a single day event which basically means the participants had just 6...

Pusher at Startup Weekend Edinburgh

We’ll be at Startup Weekend Edinburgh this weekend and we’re really excited to be involved. There’s a lot of innovation ...

What is Real-Time?

What is Real-Time? In this post we'll cover What is Real-Time in the context of Web and Internet applications....

How to Describe, Publish Consume Real-Time Data

How to Describe, Publish & Consume Real-Time Data that you've discovered within your systems and applications....

Pusher Zapier Integration

A Pusher/Zapier integration that makes it easy to trigger events the instant anything happens in any service you use and...

The easiest way to add realtime functionality to an ASP.NET e-commerce application

While adding realtime functionality to ASP.NET applications has often seemed difficult due to the connection limitations...

Implementing a realtime encoding dashboard with Pusher

We have recently rolled out a new video encoding dashboard for our users that shows the progress of videos. Because we u...

Pusher at Code Africa

Last weekend we attended Code Africa – a code jam organised by the Times. The purpose of the event was to create a numbe...

Real-Time APIs at API Strategies and Practices

How do I build a real-time API? and Where do I start when building a Real-Time API?...

A realtime charity thermometer for GiveCamp UK

In this tutorial, we will build a realtime charity thermometer widget using Pusher, which could be used on any charity e...

Football Hack Day with Stats.com Premier League Match Data in Real-Time by Pusher

We all have real-time data within our applications, but getting hold of quality pre-filtered real-time event streams of ...

Thinking Realtime at Culture Hack Scotland

Building with Pusher and realtime features at Culture Hack Scotland 2012....

Meet the Pushers: Getting Evented

We’ve been busy over the past month attending events like Reject.js, JSConf.eu, Nodejsconf.it, GiveCamp UK, FailConf and...