If you want to get really jiggy with it, you can use a Gateway on the server side and connect to it using long polling or web sockets. This will "push" server changes to any connected clients immediately.
-- Josh On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Raymond Camden <[email protected]>wrote: > > Well, it depends a lot on the details. If you store user actions in a > database, and you know the current users list of friends, then it is > trivial to use SQL to get the last N activity items from your friends. > Displaying it like FB simply means using Ajax to retrieve said events > and display. You can create a timed event in your JS code to update > this list every N seconds or so. > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Allan Jagos <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > How do you use ColdFusion to create an asynchronous activity feed like > you see in the upper right area of Facebook? Any examples or links would be > helpful. > > > > Thanks, > > Allan Jagos > > [email protected] > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347895 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
