As should be clear by Part I of this post, creating a Google Talk IM bot requires the following three items: An installed ColdFusion gateway type that is compatible with the Google Talk network. As Google Talk is built on top of Jabber which is XMPP based, the XMPP gateway that comes with...
I recently mentioned a Google Talk bot that I put online at cfdocs@gmail.com. Google Talk users can add this user to their buddy list and then submit CFML tag and function lookups to it. (I've also brought Yahoo IM and AIM versions online as nickname cflivedocs, but more on those in a subsequent...
I'll be in Dallas next week for a customer meeting, and am flying in a day earlier so as to get the chance to present to the Dallas / Fort Worth CFUG on September 28th. We'll talk about gateways, asynch processing, SMS, IM bots, and more. I hope to see you there!
Phil Crissman has posted his notes on my Monday Twin Cities CFUG presentation on ColdFusion MX 7 Event Gateways.
An issue with Internet Explorer may prevent FlashPaper documents dynamically generated by ColdFusion from displaying in Flash Player 8. This technote explains.
Ryan Hartwich, of the Kansas City CFUG, has created an application to help MAX attendees find roommates. This one is powered by ColdFusion MX 7, and uses Flash Forms and PDF/FlashPaper generation.
The San Diego ColdFusion User Group has set up a mailing list to support anyone displaced by Katrina so that anyone who needs help or can offer help may subscribe, and the response has been unbelievable. Most of the usergroup managers are on this list and are offering Katrina victims places to...
This is weird. As I mentioned a few days ago, Google Talk made changes to their authentication requirements, and as a result the ColdFusion XMPP gateway could no longer connect to that service. And as expected, my CFDocs bot stayed online until yesterday and then lost its connection, and once that...
As blogged back in June, we announced at CFUNITED that the ColdFusion team would be working with and supporting the CFEclipse project. As noted in that keynote, RDS support is the most requested CFEclipse enhancement, and today Damon Cooper blogged that this feature is indeed in the works, one way...
This is last minute, but, I'll be in Minneapolis next week and will be talking to a lunch time session of the Twin Cities CFUG on September 12th. We'll talk about gateways, asynch processing, SMS, IM bots, and more. I hope to see you there!