Cohenville » programming http://www.cohenville.com/blog It's interesting to me Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:35:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Google Charts http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/12/14/google-charts/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/12/14/google-charts/#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:28:07 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/12/14/google-charts/ Lifehacker had a post about Google’s new charting API.  It’s pretty slick, you can use it to create on0the-fly, free charts for your website (of course there are limits to free usage).  They have an nice API that is easy to understand and (at first look) seems easy to use.  Check it out at Google’s Code API.

Source: Lifehacker

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/12/14/google-charts/feed/ 1 Tools for charts and graphs on the web http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/10/20/tools-for-charts-and-graphs-on-the-web/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/10/20/tools-for-charts-and-graphs-on-the-web/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:16:25 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/10/20/tools-for-charts-and-graphs-on-the-web/ Smashing Magazine had an article about modern solutions for implementing charts and graphs on the web. They list a large number of tools and frameworks, from free to expensive. If you are interested in this type of functionality for your website, take a look at the list.

Source: Smashing Magazine

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/10/20/tools-for-charts-and-graphs-on-the-web/feed/ 0 AJAX, Javascript and DHTML tricks http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/08/02/ajax-javascript-and-dhtml-tricks/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/08/02/ajax-javascript-and-dhtml-tricks/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:31:23 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/08/02/ajax-javascript-and-dhtml-tricks/ I can’t remember where I came across this – I think at digg.com. It has a huge number of examples of useful code snippets for slick design of web sites. Examples include things as simple as form validations, but also contain examples of dynamic progress bars for file uploads and other items.

Source: Ajax Rain

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Source: Digg.com

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/03/28/15-great-javascript-snippets/feed/ 0 30+ Tools and Hacks for Gmail http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/03/22/30-tools-and-hacks-for-gmail/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/03/22/30-tools-and-hacks-for-gmail/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:14:56 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/03/22/30-tools-and-hacks-for-gmail/ Posted on Digg.com was a link to a makeuseof.com article on hacks and tools for Gmail users. Add-ons that will allow you to use Gmail as an online storage tool, integrating GTD, integrating Google Reader, and more.

Source: Digg.com

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A week or so ago I also read a blog post from Google about a new gadget that allows you to use Google Talk through your personalized home page. Another cool tool to add to Google IG.

Source: Lifehacker and Official Google Blog

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/03/20/google-gadgets-tv-and-chat/feed/ 0 Create a sliding DIV on your web page http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/03/09/create-a-sliding-div-on-your-web-page/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/03/09/create-a-sliding-div-on-your-web-page/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:29:10 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2007/03/09/create-a-sliding-div-on-your-web-page/ The geek in me liked this post on how to create sliding DIVs using Javascript and CSS from scratch without having the overhead of effects libraries such as script.aculo.us. Firblitz posted a nice tutorial, which was initiated by an additional post from Harry Maugans.

Source: FirblitzÂ

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