CodeChat Beta 1.0 ColdFusion And AJAX Code Base

Posted March 19, 2007 at 2:44 PM

Tags: ColdFusion

Last week, I gave my first ever presentation at the New York ColdFusion User Group. It was waaay too long and tried to cover way too much information, but it was a lot of fun, and a good way to get my feet wet. I hope that they will let me present again as I had a great time. Next time, I am sure I will be much more organized and cover a smaller topic.

Anyway, the topic I covered last week was a stand-alone version of my code-chat beta. It is fixes many of the bugs that exist in my currently live version. If anyone is interested in looking at the code base, download it here:

code_chat_2007_03_19.rar

Why would you be interested? Here are things that this mini-app uses:

  • Cool CSS
  • Advanced Javascript / AJAX / JSON
  • Application.cfc
  • Java method invocation
  • Java object instantiation
  • ColdFusion components and CFC caching
  • File download prompt

This was an AJAX learning experience for me, so please, do not take any of this as best practices.

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Chris
Jun 14, 2009 at 8:53 PM // reply »
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Ben. I love the simple Chat App. What would you recommend if I wished to keep all the history in the Chat window? When I close out the window I deletes history. If is there another app that you would recommend?


Ben Nadel
Jun 15, 2009 at 9:11 AM // reply »
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25,763 Points

@Chris,

You'd have to store the chat history to a database of some sort.


Will
Oct 8, 2009 at 8:05 AM // reply »
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12 Points

hi Ben, this simple chat app is wonderful but i can not make it work in Internet Explorer 8 have any suggestions?


Ben Nadel
Oct 31, 2009 at 5:41 PM // reply »
6,516 Comments
25,763 Points

@Will,

You're gonna think I'm crazy, but I have not yet tried IE8 :) I've been so hesitant to install it cause I don't want to lose IE7 for testing.

I really need to get that IE Collection app downloaded so I can do proper cross-IE testing.


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