bunny.moveEars( ), controlling your Nabaztag from ColdFusion

Last week my boss unveiled the office Nabaztag, Natalina. This super bunny will be programmed to alert us of various system failures and notifications, l33t. All we have to do is program it.

Nabaztag:tag

The bunny works by connecting to a central server that pushes instructions to it. Instructions can be sent to the server through a published API. So all we have to do is wrap that API in a lovely ColdFusion component and make calls to an instance of our component within our code.

The component is now a ‘project’ on Riaforge: http://cfbunny.riaforge.org. And here’s a quick and silly demo on YouTube:

Merry Christmas, Jingle Jingle