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The Google Chart API

May 9th, 2009


This is a simple pie chart

Google offers Webmasters an easy solution to create simple or and quite complex graphs in the Google Chart API section of the Developers Guide. It is quite simple to use, if you want to create an image such as above, just link to the following image:

]http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:60,40&chs=250x100&chl=Pie|Not%20Pie

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Inspiration: Cat in a Suitcase

May 8th, 2009

This is a cat in a suitcase, need i say more?

Making a simple Facebook Application

May 5th, 2009

In this quick tutorial I’m going to show you how to make a simple “return all” application for facebook. Before you start take a look at the Facebook Developers page and the Facebook Developers Wiki as it’s full of useful stuff.

The Core Components

  • API – Lets you talk to the facebook servers. [put picture here explaining in detail]
  • FBML – Facebook markup language, it’s like a cute little html snippet which facebook turns into normal HTML.
  • XFBML – A javascript which lets you use FBML in iframes.
  • FQL – Lets you run SQL type query’s.
  • FBJS – This changes your javascript so you can only work within a close environment.
  • PHP Client Libraries – The PHP Facebook provides to communicate with their servers.

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5 Things I hate about your website

May 3rd, 2009

Here are 5 things I hate to find when I visit a website.

1. It only works in some browsers

I’m a very keen Firefox fan, and I hate it when a website has been designed for IE and only IE. It’s not hard to make a website work in the main 5 browsers (Chrome, Opera, Firefox, IE7, IE6 and Safari).

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Oracle PartnerNetwork’s website uses JavaScript tabs for tabs, unfortunately in IE8 they don’t work.

2. Invalid HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Nothing is worse than a website which just does not work; having invalid code can normally be the cause of most problems (For example, forgetting to close an element).

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Be sure to check your website with The W3C Markup Validation Service before you release your company’s website.

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Real Life Twitter

April 29th, 2009

I love twitter, but it really does not migrate well into real life. As this video explains: