Category Archives: Socket Server

Joining a newly created room on the Union server with JQuery and OrbiterMicro

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Chad Lung

Yesterday my article showed you how to add and remove rooms from the Union server. Today I’ll add a little more code to show how easy it is to join the newly created room.

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Watching, adding and removing rooms on the Union server with JQuery and OrbiterMicro

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Chad Lung

My previous article showed you how to get a count of all the connected users on a Union server instance. Today I’ll show you how you can list the rooms on the Union server as well as how to add … Continue reading →

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Get the total count of connected users on the Union server with JQuery and OrbiterMicro

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Chad Lung

My previous article showed you how to get a list of all the rooms with the total count of each person in those rooms on the Union server. Today I’ll show you how you can get the total number of … Continue reading →

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Get the count of people in each room on the Union server using JQuery and OrbiterMicro

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Chad Lung

My previous article showed you how to get a list of all the rooms on the Union server. Today I’ll show you how you can get a list of all the rooms on the Union server including how many people … Continue reading →

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Get a room list from the Union server using JQuery and OrbiterMicro

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Chad Lung

I’ve done a few articles now in regards to the Union Framework. Today I want to show you how to get a complete listing of rooms from the Union server. Using the Flash/Flex Reactor Client this is pretty easy to … Continue reading →

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Building a socket server with EventMachine, Ruby, and Flash CS5

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Chad Lung

I recently began messing with EventMachine. On their GitHub page you can find some starter tutorials as well as instructions to get it installed. Today I’m going to build a simple socket server to allow Flash CS5 to communicate to … Continue reading →

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GFS Server has been updated

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Chad Lung

If you use my open source GFS Server you might be interested to know that I have updated the project files to use Netbeans 6.8, Apache Mina 1.1.7, as well as the latest SFL4J and MySQL JDBC Connector. No code … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash, Flex, Java, Online Games, Socket Server | 2 Comments

Building a socket server with Node.js and Flash CS4

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Chad Lung

Node.js is very easy to use and very well designed. Today I’m going to build a simple socket server using the sample provided by the Node.js documentation and create a socket client in Flash CS4. Updated July 30, 2010 – … Continue reading →

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Getting started with Node.js on Ubuntu 9.10 in about 5 minutes

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Chad Lung

I recently installed Ubuntu 9.10 on VMWare 6.5 Workstation and wanted to try out Node.js. According to the Node.js website Node is a way to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs. The nice thing about Node is … Continue reading →

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Building a Flash Chat Socket Server with Stackless Python

Posted on October 21, 2009 by Chad Lung

When most people decide to build a socket server for their Flash/Flex projects they usually turn toward using Java since there are many excellent ways to go about building on some great frameworks. Today however I’ll quickly build a socket … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Flash, Python, Socket Server, Ubuntu | 1 Comment