LiveBlogging Engine using SignalR to push updates to clients.
No persistence of blog entries.
The UI is responsive and is usable on mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad or Galaxy Nexus.
Clone the source and open the .sln file in Visual Studio 2012. You will have to use nuget to make sure you have the packages required to build the server. Will run in IIS Express 7+.
Once started open two tabs to test the system. First: /home/posts, second: /home/index.
Now type into the post textarea and click 'Broadcast'. Any listening pages will be updated with your blog post.
##TODO:
Clean up the js and consolidate into an app.js file instead of in the Views.
Requires Visual Studio 2012 and MVC4.
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2012 Ben Clark-Robinson, ben.clarkrobinson@gmail.com
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