Do you ever wish that a certain feature existed in ClearQuest but it does not?

ClearQuest release fix packs every few months. These fix packs are mostly for fixing defects reported by customers but some times also introduce new enhancements.

IBM has a website where customers can submit Request for Enhancements (RFEs). You could view the Top 20 RFEs.

I recently started developing a small PHP website to access a web service using AJAX.  Now, the last time I dealt with AJAX I using XML to communicate between client and server.  XML needed to be parsed and that usually meant additional time spent debugging.

I had heard of JSON, so I went over to http://json.org to understand how to implement.  It took me about 30 minutes to understand the syntax and another hour or two to implement.  I implemented a PHP page to access parameters via query string and return a JSON object.  I implemented an HTML page to consuned the JSON output by using prototype and eval function in JavaScript. I am so relieved that I no longer need to generate and parse XML. Whew!!!

The application works great.  Now I have a seen a lot of site that use animation to provide some feedback to the user that an AJAX request is being processed by the server.  I thought perhaps I can find one of those animations and plug it in the top right hand corner of my application.  I came across this great site: http://www.ajaxload.info/.  This site can dynamically generate over a dozen different progress indicator in the background and foreground color of your choice.