Jen Bourey has begun work on a series of very nice looking utility portlets. Here is her post to the portlet-dev list, in case you're interested in joining the fun but haven't seen it. Please continue the discussion on portlet-dev, though. Subscriptions are available here: http://www.jasig.org/portlets/mailing-lists.
-Jonathan Hi all, As a result of some recent conversation in IRC, I've started a new portlet project in the Jasig sandbox. This project is intended to be a collection of small, general utility portlets. So far I've added the following: - Search (google-powered) - Maps (google-powered with toggleable traffic info) - Tabbed RSS (google-powered, allows users to search for and add new feeds) - Small monthly view (jQuery UI) - Stocks (Yahoo data and news combined w/ the google feed reader) - Dictionary / Thesaurus (data from http://services.aonaware.com/DictService/DictService.asmx, which is collected from dict.org servers) - Language translation (google-powered) Screenshots: http://www.unicon.net/node/1194 Of course, these portlets all have numerous rough edges and need some UE attention and javascript cleanup. I'm hoping that having something in svn might get us started and open some dialog about what other utility portlets we'd like to have, as well as whether certain portlets might be better powered by alternate data sources. It has already been suggested that it would be preferable for the dictionary portlet to have an available local data source. I'm hoping that this project can ultimately become both an example of best practices for Ajax portlet development for uPortal and a source of some better default content for the uPortal distribution. I'm also hoping that this set of portlets can continue to be a collaborative effort; input, suggestions, and development help are all very much welcome! - Jen -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
