Widgets and Gadgets
Lately I’ve become interested in the development of widgets and gadgets, after making my first firefox addon ever I decided to try and see how widgets work. So, I downloaded and installed the Konfabulator SDK and started looking at source code.
That worked well and with the knowledge learned I created the wikiHow Search Widget. This was easy and fun to do. After some weeks, I thought how cool it would be to create a widget for imgur.com, I went and did that. That turned out pretty well.
After creating three widgets I started to expand and tried to develop something for another desktop dashboard. Since I have Windows 7, it came installed with Windows Sidebar. Developing on that is quite hard, it’s a lot messier to debug. I picked a simple task and created something for wikiHow editors again.
I also tried to work with Google Desktop, it’s better than Windows Sidebar, but I still prefer Konfabulator.
