http://www.knitgal.com/blog/index.cfm KnitGal's notions about everything and nothing in particular. en-us Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:03:08 -0600 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:52:00 -0600 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss lola@his.com lola@his.com lola@his.com no http://www.knitgal.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/3/12/The-Panic-Status-Board--What-a-Cool-Idea <p><img src="http://www.knitgal.com/blog/enclosures/panicstatusboard.png" alt="Panic Status Board" /> While checking my RSS feeds, I came across a really interesting post at the Panic blog In it they described how they came up with a status board to keep track of their projects, the number of bugs filed and resolved, and other details. I've selected a quote from the blog listing what is on display in the status board displayed here:</p> <blockquote cite="http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/"> <p>The idea quickly grew beyond "Project Status", and has become a hub of all sorts of internal Panic information. What you're actually looking at is an internal-only webpage that updates frequently using AJAX which shows:</p> <ul> <li>E-Mail Queue - number of messages / number of days.</li> <li>Project Status - sorry for the heavy censorship - you know how it is!<br /></li> <li>Important Countdowns<br /></li> <li>Revenue - comparing yesterday to the day before, not so insightful (yet).<br /></li> <li>Live Tri-Met Bus Arrivals - when it's time to go home!<br /></li> <li>The Panic Calendar<br /></li> <li>Employee Twitter Messages<br /></li> <li>Any @Panic Twitter Messages - i.e., be nice! They go on our screen!</li> </ul>[From <a href="http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/"><cite>Panic Blog - The Panic Status Board</cite></a>] </blockquote> <blockquote cite="http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/"></blockquote> <p>Now, this is really clever and struck a chord, as you can see from the comments thread. If you want the code for rolling your own, well, the Panic folks haven't released it, but they give you hints, such as using CSS3, and what to get as the display screen. Not to be deterred, someone has already set up a project titled <a href="http://github.com/resnostyle/Statusarchy" target="_blank" title="Statusarchy">Statusarchy</a> in an effort to roll their own version. I'm sure a ColdFusion version could be rolled as well. I'm not going to do this because I don't have an office with a budget large enough to buy this really cool display, and a team working on several projects. But I'm sure some of you will be inspired to roll your own!</p> <div class="posttagsblock"><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Technology" rel="tag">Technology</a></div> Programming Raves Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:52:00 -0600 http://www.knitgal.com/blog/index.cfm/2010/3/12/The-Panic-Status-Board--What-a-Cool-Idea http://www.knitgal.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/17/Thanks-to-Justice I'd like to thank Justice for putting in a word for me and getting me set up here, so I can play around with ColdFusion. The ColdFusion community is full of generous, giving people, and I'm very appreciative of that. I'm still tweaking this blog a bit, and need to think up of stuff to post about but I'm sure I can find plenty of subjects! Raves Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:27:00 -0600 http://www.knitgal.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/17/Thanks-to-Justice