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GamingSep 4, 2014
DIY Minecraft: Multiplayer Voxeljs with PubNub
I recently stumbled across the awesome Voxeljs library which allows anybody to create Minecraft style games (Voxel) that run in the browser with NodeJS. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to develop multiplayer Voxeljs to build a DIY Minecraft! I decided I was going to take an afternoon...
Michael Carroll
GamingSep 2, 2014
Members Only! JavaScript Private Chat API w/ Access Control
Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → We’ve now built out a pretty solid...
Michael Carroll
BuildAug 29, 2014
IoT Demos: iBeacon, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, MQTT
When you intern at PubNub, you’re not running errands, getting your manager coffee, or scrubbing fridges. No, you’re building amazing applications and PubNub evangelism and IoT demos that harness the power of the PubNub Data Stream Network. You’re helping customers be successful with...
Chandler Mayo
Solution Engineer, PubNub
BuildAug 28, 2014
How to Create an App Like Snapchat
Building a DIY Snapchat isn’t as hard as you’d think. In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to capture an image and send it in real time to a recipient using JavaScript. As a rule of thumb, if you can represent data as a JSON object or string, you can send it with PubNub Data Streams....
Michael Carroll
BuildAug 28, 2014
Bidirectional Push Notifications for Large Message Payloads
This blog post looks at three mobile push notification methods with tutorials: Google Cloud Messaging, Apple Push Notification Services, and PubNub Data Streams.
Developer Relations Team
GamingAug 27, 2014
Creating Private Chat Requests with Popup Alerts
Good News! We’ve launched an all new Chat Resource Center. We recommend checking out our new Chat Resource Center, which includes overviews, tutorials, and design patterns for building and deploying mobile and web chat. Take me to the Chat Resource Center → Building on our previous spawning private...
Michael Carroll
BuildAug 27, 2014
Blazing Fast Remote Signaling for Raspberry Pi and Arduino
This tutorial shows you how to connect a Raspberry Pi or Arduino to PubNub for the purpose of blazing fast and reliable remote signaling for embedded IoT.
Developer Relations Team
BuildAug 26, 2014
Real-time Collaboration Sync with Parse API and PubNub
By combining the Parse API with PubNub Data Streams you can obtain the ultimate developer toolkit powerful enough to scale your successful mobile app to billions of users. Using the Parse API for user management with large file storage and PubNub for data streams, you can power live user communication...
Stephen Blum
CTO, PubNub
BuildAug 26, 2014
Get Redis Replication Right: Multi Data Center Support
This tutorial walks you through a proof-of-concept for global, multi data center Redis replication of data using PubNub and NodeJS. We’re continuing to grow our collection of persistence adapters for PubNub using Node.JS. Redis replication can be difficult due to TCP windowing and other Kernal...