I am particularly impressed with the UI for the ladder, awsome work.

I'm impressed! I hafto start to make a tutorial/manual about this=D
http://www.tutobook.com

*lol*

Btw I did sent you a tweet reply, but as you don't follow me you might not have seen it. I haven't tested your install badge on the blog post, but I was very annoyed that the check for Air was ignored and it downloaded it anyway. Just an FYI that this is a bug that you just may wish to fix, if you haven't already.

I might be wrong, liquid assets from my recall is your total assets on paper. Not 100% sure my meory serves me right there though.

Ray, just another FYI I did end up trying the install badge on your website and it worked fine. I think it might have just been the fact that I clicked on the twitter link that it had issues with.

@Joshua: I will be blogging on how the updates happen. Realtime is probably possible, but beyond my skills. (In fact, I'm 99% sure it IS possible w/ LCDS. I'm using BlazeDS though and I don't think I can. Also, 'non realtime' actually is a GOOD thing for my next application.)

Another col: Not a bad idea.

Leaderboard: I originally wanted it in game, but at 11PM last night I was exhausted. ;)

@Ray - You know you have started something now don't you?

Maybe another sugestion over time is something to remember what price the stock was purchased for, so that they know how much money is potential going to be earned lost etc. And maybe a runtime worm, that shows the rise and fall of the select stocks as well.

@Ray, doesn't need to be fancy, even a another column layout or something that updates with all the stock that has been purchased an for how much. Let the user work out the profit / loss margins.

Nitpicky - and prolly due to your lack of sleep - on the Registration page - "Pasword" should probably read "Password" instead. - Installed and setting up now.

Ray - Are you gonna release this on RIAFORGE? I'd like to tinker with it if ya do.

@Ray - Yeah, I am not sure what the values in the brackets reflect against the price. But let's say we add a column that has a summary of the value of the shares for that user, then when it is clicked on a new window or something opens that shows the history of stock sold and bought. I was originally thinking just stock currently held, but a history would be better. But a column needs to be there that shows my stock is worth number of stock x purchase price and summed over the different prices. Writing a sql script to do that should be second nature.

Fun! Couple small suggestions. Though i get the feeling this app is just a test app not your new endeavor, so maybe no improvements needed. :-)

Show what price we bought the stocks at (in chat maybe)

Color code chat (real chatter vs alerts on buy/sell)

Really neat. I can't wait to see the code.

The app threw an error when trying to sell 1,000,000 shares from Xyrex a while ago.

Web App for High/Low tracking on the various stocks

http://www.thecomputerwizards.org/gameone/

Sid's code makes use of the RSS feed I think I forgot to mention:

http://gameone.coldfusionjedi.com/feed.cfm

Has this been hacked?

Number 1 player with

$2,487,445,097.52

Nah, I played fair n square. Though, I did write a few tools to graph and track the progress based on the RSS feed. Once I got over to 10 million, it was real easy to make giant leaps off of very small fluctuations. At this point, with 2bil in the bank, I can make upwards of 500mil per transaction

New error - buying stock - already had 2147450392 shares and was trying to buy another 55000000 - got this error.

---------------------------------------------------------

Executing Database Query.' faultDetail:'For details, turn on Robust Exception Information in the ColdFusion Administrator'"
name = "Error"
rootCause = (null)
headers = (null)
message = (mx.messaging.messages::ErrorMessage)#2
body = (null)
clientId = "3DD14FDB-3E09-FB17-EF29-B565C56F4065"
correlationId = "A7FFEDF4-CF9B-5047-5D75-E0A474CD0EC2"
destination = "ColdFusion"
extendedData = (null)
faultCode = "Server.Processing"
faultDetail = "For details, turn on Robust Exception Information in the ColdFusion Administrator"
faultString = "Unable to invoke CFC - Error Executing Database Query."
headers = (Object)#3
messageId = "44728866-A00E-44B4-D30F-4B1B2080DA01"
rootCause = (null)
timestamp = 1240719483040
timeToLive = 0
messageId = "44728866-A00E-44B4-D30F-4B1B2080DA01"
target = (null)
token = (mx.rpc::AsyncToken)#4
message = (mx.messaging.messages::RemotingMessage)#5
body = (Array)#6
[0] "sid.wing"
[1] "XXXXXXX"
[2] 2
[3] 55000000
clientId = "3DD14FDB-3E09-FB17-EF29-B565C56F4065"
destination = "ColdFusion"
headers = (Object)#7
DSEndpoint = "orca-amf"
DSId = "3DD14BD4-F81A-

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That's all I could capture of it.

Can we say maxint? ;) What I need to do is put reasonable limits on portfolio size. Like 1B max per stock type.

Now that I've released the code, maybe someone will volunteer to do that. ;)

Can't seem to install it on Ubuntu 8.04. Funny though, you'd think AIR would allow it to run fine regardless of the OS?

AIR and game installed fine on 8.10

Ok,

There is a hack / bug / exploit where you can get as many shares as you like, as I thought last week when people were on crazy numbers.

I now have over a 1000 T so the game is pointless now, but was fun before I discovered it.

Ray email me if you want me to explain, I dont want to do it here.

"quite exciting", not "quit exciting".
And you have to add an exclamation point to the end of the link or otherwise you are directed to a wiki about Taipan snakes.