Archive for September, 2010

There are several useful bits fo code we use in various Django projects. One of the most commonly used is a piece of code which modifies BoundField and Widget classes (from django.forms) in a way to add class='required' attribute to rendered HTML widget...

Tracing is a way of monitoring the execution of your application while it is running. .NET offers you two classes for tracing: Trace and Debug (both in System.Diagnostics namespace), they are identical, except that the Debug class functions are not...

We've recently added a "Plugins" page to the AlertGrid website.  An AlertGrid plugin is a simple tool that works in the background, and sends Signals to AlertGrid. The first plugin, which is now available (with the source code), is an extremely simple...

September 9, 2010 | In: AlertGrid

Visualizing data with AlertGrid

Some people have told us that it would be great to have the chance to visualize metrics received in Signals by AlertGrid. Indeed, a picture is worth a thousand words. In fact we also missed this a lot. We prioritized this task and voila! It's ready to use...

As an application developer you often want to include notification functionality in your product. You want your users to know about certain events occurring in your application. For example, if your application is a project management system, you may want...

If you're looking for a typical "dotcom monitor" service to check the availability of your web site or  mail/dns server, then you'll probably find other, much more useful tools. However, if: You have developed an application, service, script or a...