I’ve been working on a website using bootstrap for the front end. It’s been a little while since I did much with bootstrap, but it’s a very nice (almost standard) framework for building modern, responsive design sites. Anyway, getting reacquainted with it has been fun!

For my work with Operations Bridge monitoring platform, I did some integration to Service Now. This used a custom action – groovy script, which called a perl script to handle creation of an incident in Service now. Perhaps too many steps in there, but using perl, partially for legacy reasons, also gives us lots of control and fine tuning that would have been a pain with groovy. Plus, I’m not too great at groovy programming, so using perl was faster.

jQuery / Ajax – I started setting up a new site for a client, one aspect of which requires a dynamic search box (showing results as the user types). I used straight jquery to a php backend to accomplish this, though the site is still private, so I can’t share the link yet.

Php software – Also as part of this project, I bought a php / mysql script already written with most of the features desired. This will save a lot of time, however, the code was a little more tediously written than I would have liked. I can work with it, but it’s one of the pitfalls of buying source code.