Tip of the Iceberg

Category show-n-tell thursday
Based loosely on something I found on ajaximpact.com, I've written an AJAX-based IM client for Domino. I know, that's silly... why not just use Sametime? Well, that's a long story. The short version is that a couple friends of mine wanted something lightweight with no installation footprint, and they don't need everything that Sametime can do. And it gave me an excuse to play with JSON.

So here it is. I call it "Marco"... 'cause executives who still think that IM isn't a valid productivity tool apparently haven't heard their programmers yelling questions at each other over cubicle walls. It's not entirely functional in Internet Explorer at the moment, but works well in Firefox. Except for the logout portion... still gotta play with that some more.

By the way, this is what prompted my previous post about creating documents without forms or agents. Which has been surprisingly popular, considering the original impetus. Speaking of which, thanks for the trackback, Jake. I'm happy to say that this app uses no agents at all... just a couple views, some pages for translating embedded views into JSON objects, and a couple really primitive forms for storing message and login data. So if you feel like playing with this, just slap it on a server, set the default access to Editor w/ delete, and you'll be off and running.