Steve from Vingo.tv approached us with a problem - their existing Java chat widget had broken and they felt it was time for something faster with better cross-browser compatibility and improved reliability.
Although we are better known for our PHP and MySQL work, we’re actually chat legends - Benjie spent much of his formative years writing chat servers and dabbling in chat protocols so this project posed no problem. Of course, AJAX alone is not enough to create a fast chat client - so ours uses Flash (Haxe.org to be exact - being the Open Source fanatics we are) to handle the ports. The end result - near instant communication!