The past week has been very busy with conferences and meetings, but I still managed to get some quality stuff done. I learned how to actually make a widget in TurboGears, as opposed to the somewhat brute force way I have been doing things, so hopefully soon the mess that is my tabs demo will be looking much cleaner. I've added a couple interesting bits of jQuery, including the HeatColor widget Rebecca posted about earlier. I also found a much more versatile calendar to replace the jQuery UI one - this one will be easier to play with to add our own images, tooltip events, etc. It also plays nice with JSON feeds, and I have been trying to feed in some of the NY senate feeds to test it out.

Another neat widget I discovered is Img Notes, a Flickr-like utility that lets you add notes to pictures. Rebecca and I have been working on this for eVanhee. It was such a lucky find, since in our recent meeting there was expressed interest in being able to "tag" important parts of eVanhee's images. Right now we are trying it out on a simple house drawing but it has a lot of potential, especially since notes can include HTML (i.e., can be blinged out).

Today we've been hanging out at the NTID Tech Symposium. The plan for this week is to finish up the person widget dashboard and configure it so that it can take a name and get all the relevant information from senate APIs. I'm looking forward to getting cranking on the calendar, my personal favorite component. So exciting to think about all of this going live soon!