Mar 10, 2010
My status board, inspired by Panic.
So, maybe this is a bit off topic but it is so cool, I had to share it anyway.
Yesterday, I built my own status board (inspired by this: http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/)
This is a brief over view of what it does.
It’s built using PHP/MYSQL and uses AJAX requests every 20 seconds to keep it updated constantly.
It shows the latest projects that are not started yet, ready to go, and active. It also has the days events/to-dos, does needing Rice & Sour Cream count as an event?
It is updated via a simple PHP/MYSQL backend from my local machine.
The bottom center module is a real time server status that pings each server to check that it is still alive and well.
The most exciting module is the bottom right that executes an IMAP request to pull the number of unread emails from my googlemail and my work email accounts.
That’s all there is to it, but it looks pretty cool mounted on the wall.
I’d love to know your thoughts on it!
I want to know how to do this!
This looks great! I had made one in flash but now I’m wanting to do one in php/mysql. Would you be willing to share some of your source at all?
That looks great…
Do you mind sharing the source, or writing a tut on how you did that…?
I am happy write a series of tutorials on how to create each module for it if that would help?
Yeah, that would be great, the board looks awesome..!
Hey, dont know if your interested, but would it be possible to buy your “board”…? and if so, how much would you want…?
I would definitely purchase it, also the email notifications for a comment on your blog is broken