Top "Polling" questions

Polling is actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity.

My simple poll() example only partially works

The program is supposed to accept telnet connections on port 8888 and then send and messages from each telnet client using …

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How To Do Polling with Angular 2 Observables

Given the following code, how to I alter it to make the get request to "api/foobar" repeat every 500 milliseconds? …

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Configure Jenkins to Poll less than every minute

Configuring the Jenkins polling interval to: * * * * * will poll the SCM for every minute. Is there a way to configure it …

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Server polling with JavaScript

What are some good practices for polling a server with JavaScript for an application that needs to refresh data very …

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What is a RESTful way of monitoring a REST resource for changes?

If there is a REST resource that I want to monitor for changes or modifications from other clients, what is …

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How to display loading percentage and how to do it without javascript?

I want to make something similar to loaders in PHP so I used this code: <?php $x=1; while($x&…

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Getting historical data from Twitter

For a research project I would like to get the last 3 months worth of Twitter messages. Technical challenges aside, is …

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Socket connections and Polling. Which is a better solution in terms of battery life?

So... I'm making an application for Android. The application needs to send and receive realtime chat data (needs to be …

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What is the difference between busy-wait and polling?

From the Wikipedia article on Polling Polling, or polled operation, in computer science, refers to actively sampling the status of …

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What's the difference between polling and pulling?

What's the difference between polling and pulling (if any)?

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