gadgets

What Things are Most Conducive to a Productive Programming Environment?

Many of us have worked in multiple environments over the years, and have found that some are more productive than others. In many cases, it's not directly related to the abilities of the developers, but instead to their environment. I myself have experienced this, being in places where I seemed to develop faster, and better. And yet othe...

Adjusting the rectangle that maximized windows fit in?

The best way I can think of to ask this is by example... In Windows 7 and Vista, there's the gadget bar down the right hand side of the screen, and when you maximize a different (any and all) window, that window fills the rest of the screen without covering the gadget bar. How can I do that with my own app except across the top of the sc...

Monitoring enterprise systems using widgets

We want to develop a new monitoring system to bring visibility to the status of our enterprise systems. Instead of using Microsoft SCOM or similar tools we thought of having a more technologically advanced approach. We thought of using a similar concept like igoogle / LIVE gadgets and to display them in a gadget container. The type of g...

Google Gadgets and external scripts

I'm trying to create my first custom Google Gadget to be used privately in my company's Google Sites intranet. Ideally I'd like to just show a thumbnail that the user can click that will open a modal window with the full video. This requires my including a couple of small JS libraries in my widget. For my widget I created this XML: <?x...

opensocial how to access access gadgets.*

is there a way to use gadgets.* in my javascripts if my my content type is url? ...