I wrote a few OpenLaszlo applets over the holidays. I'm calling them "applets" because they aren't full-fledged transactional applications; nevertheless, I thought they might be interesting to a few developers.

First, the Aargh! page answers the question, how do you spell "aargh"? It uses statistics from Google, and both an HTML table and an OpenLaszlo application to visualize the result. (Click on the "visualize" button at the top of the table, to switch between them.)

Then, Ben's roundrectbutton got me excited about using OpenLaszlo for lighter-weight interfaces, so I added a button bar to the top of my home page.

And finally, Jon Udell posted about visualizing del.icio.us tags over time. He uses an Excel spreadsheet to implement the visualization, but I wanted something more interactive. Hence: expialidocio.us.

One of the things I like about OpenLaszlo is that it makes it easy to write small applets like this quickly -- because they just aren't a lot of code.

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