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, [...]
Jul 26th, 2010
CFUnited Session: Adding real-time data visualization to your application or website
On Friday, I’m presenting a session at CFUnited titled, “Adding real-time data visualization to your application or website“. In this session, I’m going to demonstrate how to take data from your web site or application and turn it into a real-time data feed that can be used to feed a dashboard that will impress [...]
Jun 24th, 2010
Tour de ColdFusion Beta Launched!
We have FINALLY launched Tour de ColdFusion! We are still filling in a few gaps and testing, so we consider it a beta, but it’s ready for you to dive in. Tour de ColdFusion is a desktop application built on Adobe AIR that provides quick access to hundreds of ColdFusion code samples. Live running [...]
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 [...]
Aug 4th, 2009
My CFUnited Session – How ColdFusion 9 and LiveCycle ES can work together
I’m presenting at CFUnited (August 12th-15th) on a topic I think many will find interesting – “ColdFusion 9 & LiveCycle ES: SOA Development“. I’m hoping to spark some interest in how ColdFusion and LiveCycle ES (LCES) can be combined to do some really unique and amazing things. I had the idea for this session the [...]
Jul 13th, 2009
Announcing Beta of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder
During the past two months, I’ve had the pleasure of showing off the new features of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder to several ColdFusion user groups. This was my first year doing the “ColdFusion circuit” so at first I was a bit nervous, but after I spent some time with ColdFusion 9 (Centaur) and ColdFusion [...]
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