Ottered Designs

Menthol will be a sourceforge hosted open source project that I am going to work on, and I hope to gain some support as well to develop this.

I know there are lots of web statistics programs out in the ‘ether’, but I wanted to produce one that has aspects of ‘AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML)’ embedded into it, so that statistics could be checked and updated “on the fly”.

To make this project a little different, I would like to create versions that are available for:

• PHP 4 and above,
• ASP.NET (VB based),
• ASP.NET (C# based),
• Python,
• Ruby,
• Cold Fusion, and
• Java

By doing this and keeping the features in step as much as possible, the aim is to allow use of the package in a wide arena and by more than just the “PHP” or “ASP” crowd.

The other part to the cross platform development will be an attempt to keep each system using the same API. Seeing as this is the first stage, then there will be issues, and I will need to have some assistance, I expect, to get my thoughts in the right direction.

This is the first time I have even considered doign a project such as this, so please feel free to help, assist and provide encouragement.