Data.driven()

Finally finished the Creative Industries Network Alerts Widgets (CIAlerts.widget Yahoo! flat-file, ~250k). Its purpose is to allow system administrators at QUT, where I work, to send out network alerts to staff and students when things go wrong on any of the servers.

You are free to download it, but be warned that you probably wont see very much (if anything) because it requires that someone send out an alert; and only Admins at QUT, where I work/study, can do that. The widget’s dynamically loaded source code is also available.

The widget is accompanied by a website from which the alerts are sent. Network admin can send three kinds of alerts: “Please Note”, “Attention”, and “Very Important”; each kind of alert comes with its own color (as seen above and below).

Using XMLHttpRequest, The widget works by periodically polling the server for new alerts. The alerts are sent as a JSON header string and processed in the widget. The widget features:

Dynamic BootStrapper (bootstrap.js):

…details coming soon.

Custom Animation Engine:

…details coming soon.

Custom event subscription model:

…details coming soon.

Alerts database:

…details coming soon.

Simple Dock manager:

…details coming soon.

I’m currently working on a new look for this web site… hopefully I will get some time to finish the new template. I’m trying to explore the widget design concept a bit further through this template.