awebfactory - web application factory pattern

This is a simple jquery + ajax + views based pop-up alarm based on the results of a view consulted by a timed process.

Step 1 - create the view

Create a view having a filter which determines whether or not there are any nodes of the type you are interested in (say, Todo) with a date field "less than or equal to" "now".

First, I posted the following feature request on drupal.org http://drupal.org/node/125030: