I’ve been working on a massive home project recently – writing an Ajax frontend to Nagios and NDOUtils. This similar to groundworks, zenoss and op5, but I have specific needs to address, and a lot of what I learn in doing this can be used for my work projects. The important part of this is getting a handle on AJAX – it’s been all the rage for the last few years, but I avoided it because javascript implementations differs between browsers, and it wasn’t worth the hassle for what I needed to get done.

However, I’ve stumbled across jQuery – a mature, lightweight AJAX javascript library designed for cross-browser compatibility. I’m also working to achieve graceful degradation – so if a user doesn’t have javascript enabled, or their browser only understands a subset of the javascript calls, they still get full access the tools I write.

So, all of this lives in a subversion tree, and I’m madly hacking away on it. Once I get a stable, clean demo that validates user input, I may well post a link to it.