Sending a message to all users.

Sometimes one user could need to send a message to all the connected users. Perhaps you have to give some announcement to the users, for example for an unplanned reboot of the system, thing that you must avoid as much as you can (see post about best practices). The biWall function covers this functionality.

From the expression test window you can try this code

{
var lMessage$:=’Hi all users’;

return biWall&(lMessage$);
}
I hope this will be useful for all of you.

Three interesting news

The first, One interest article about the price of SMS here, Why are the SMS so expensive?

The second, Martin Dawes will provide the billing systems to O2. You can see it in this article (oss news review).

And the last, eServ has had a very white, white Christmas. The company announces that with his messaging system his clients have achieved the

100% of the messages delivery for a record peak of SMS and MMS traffic over the holiday period. Across eServGlobal’s client base, end users sent over 1.5 billion messages during the 11 days over Christmas and New Year, and one client experienced a peak of 2500 messages per second at the height of activity

More information in this link...

As perhaps you know. eServ provides the SCP (service control point) that in some Singl.eView implementations are integrated with the CE (commerce engine) to achieve real time rating. Anyone knows this software? anyone has experience with this architecture?