In this book, we'll walk through the process of building a functional prototype of a social web application that will rely on real-time data updates. If you've ever used any sort of live voting application out there (such as Straw Poll or Twitter Polls), then you're probably pretty comfortable with the idea already. If not, I'll summarize our application so that you know what you're going to be building throughout this book.
Our application will allow users to register for new accounts on our site. From there, they will have the option to create new polls for other users (either while logged in or anonymously) to vote on. We want to make sure that the votes for the polls are recorded and broadcast ...
