Real time applications with Django, XMPP and StropheJS - The Agiliq Blog

[scorpion032]

http://agiliq.com/blog/2010/12/real-time-applications-with-django-xmpp-and-stroph/

[shorbaji]

Interesting work that looks promising.

In general though, is it just me or are we yet to see an API/library/protocol that makes it 'simple' to add real time capabilities to an app?

[japherwocky → shorbaji]

I think one of the easiest tools to work with is http://tornadoweb.org/ - hacking apart their chat demo will get you most of the way there.