I had some spare cycles today so I decided to kick the tires on Dashcode - the Dashboard "widget" creation tool that you can use in OS 10.4 and later. The widgets are little applications that sit in your Dashboard and can do simple or complex tasks.
I decided to create a little widget that displays my bandwidth usage for the current month. This widget will post the request to my ISP (Northwestel Cable) and then display a little gauge to indicate how close I am getting to going over my usage cap and incurring usage charges.
It was fun to play with Dashcode but I have to say it is a little buggy (controls stop responding in the IDE after a while) and the help is rather sparse - or at least the stuff I like was not great. The environment is HTML, Javascript and CSS. I definitely wouldn't want to call coding in this environment a full time job as it is just too unstable for long term development efforts.
So - if you are on NWTel Cable - download the little widget - configure your MAC address, choose your Usage Cap and never have to view the NWTel Cable website again!
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