May 2nd, 2012
Amazon EC2 – a real-world case study of moving from a data center to the cloud
Two years ago, I blogged about ChessJam, a chess application that I helped develop where people from all over the world play live chess with each other. Since launching ChessJam, it’s been up and running 24/7 with very little downtime and has experienced some good growth. To give you a sense of the activity levels, [...]
Jul 26th, 2010
CFUnited Session: Building Multiplayer games on the Flash Platform with ColdFusion, Flex and Data Services
On Thursday, I’m presenting a session at CFUnited titled, “Building Multi-Player games on the Flash Platform with ColdFusion, Flex and Data Services“. As you can see, I’m trying to do something a bit more fun than my usual topics! Yes, I’m talking about ColdFusion powering a multiplayer game! Over the past 18 months, [...]
May 6th, 2010
Scaling an Adobe AIR application to fit multiple resolutions and Netbooks
A few months ago, I blogged about a little side project I’m involved in called ChessJam, an online live chess application built with Flex that runs as a desktop application on Adobe AIR. A few weeks ago, we had some users complain that ChessJam was basically unusable on Netbooks. Further investigation confirmed that we had [...]
Dec 14th, 2009
Blending HTML and local content in an Adobe AIR app
I was recently able to take advantage of Adobe AIR’s HTML capabilities to blend server-fed HTML/JS content with rich local SWF/JPG/PNG content using a simple technique that I thought worthy of blogging. I recently blogged about a project that I’ve been involved with called ChessJam, an AIR app for playing online chess. We recently added [...]
Nov 9th, 2009
The making of ChessJam Flex/AIR + ColdFusion + LiveCycle DS = fun project!
A few weeks ago, I unveiled a weekend project that I’ve been involved in for several months called ChessJam. I am now making good on my promise to share why we the selected the technologies behind this desktop application for playing online head-to-head chess. Obviously this is primarily a personal project but there is a [...]
Oct 24th, 2009
New ChessJam blog created for game-specific posts
I’ve created a separate blog for ChessJam-specific news. I will continue to blog about ChessJam here on Greg’s Ramblings but only when it’s relevant to the Adobe developer community. For example, I’m working on a new post that goes into some details on how the app was built with Flex, AIR, ColdFusion and LiveCycle Data [...]
Oct 19th, 2009
ChessJam and Robots – A.I. saves the day
A few days ago, I blogged about the roll-out of ChessJam, an online chess app built on Flex/AIR, ColdFusion and LiveCycle Data Services. The roll-out has gone well but we have quickly learned that our real challenge is creating a new chess playing community! From analyzing our logs, here is the typical experience over the [...]
Oct 15th, 2009
My pet project – ChessJam – live online chess with a fun attitude
For the past eight months, I’ve been working with two friends, Todd Williams and Sean Carey, on a little side project called ChessJam. This project started in February, 2009 when Sean and I decided to play a game of online chess with each other to finally resolve who was the better player. We explored several [...]
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