Monthly Archives: February 2009

links for 2009-02-28

By Gary Burge | Published: February 28, 2009
6 jQuery Chart Plugins For Your App | Steve Reynolds Blog In this article I’ll discuss 6 jQuery charting plugins, their key capabilities and limitations. (tags: jQuery plugins charts graphs) JQuery HowTo: Preload images with jQuery jQuery makes creation and loading DOM elements (in our case images) very easy. If you need to preload an [...]
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links for 2009-02-26

By Gary Burge | Published: February 26, 2009
Google Geo Developers Blog: Monkey see, monkey do Now, you can get the standard UI elements you'd see on Google Maps (including the newer style "3D" map and zoom controls), along with other standard behaviour such as keyboard and mouse handling, just by adding one line of code. (tags: GoogleMaps APIs UI elements update new) [...]
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The Changing Landscape of Patents

By Gary Burge | Published: February 25, 2009
The Atlantic website is presenting a fascinating interactive timeline of the rise and fall of US patent application per capita. Covering the period 1975 to 2002, the Flash-based animation shows cities where the volume of patents moved up or down the engines of innovation - universities, industry, high tech companies - waxed and waned.
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links for 2009-02-24

By Gary Burge | Published: February 24, 2009
Widgetbox › Telonu Layoff Tracker Widget Layoff Tracker widget shows a scrolling list of the latest US layoffs.Javascript can be embedded anywhere. Data from Telonu.com. (tags: LayoffTracker widget layoffs plugin)
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LayoffTracker Widget a Good, But Depressing Idea

By Gary Burge | Published: February 24, 2009
Telonu.com, a company gossip site, has released a LayoffTracker Widget that lets you embed the latest job loss bad news on your blog, website or start page.
Telonu.com LayoffTracker Widget
Telonu.com LayoffTracker Widget
Available at the universal widget site, Widgetbox, this JavaScript widget shows in reverse chronological order the damage to US employment. The 20-employee cuts are featured with the 20,000-employee layoffs.
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links for 2009-02-23

By Gary Burge | Published: February 23, 2009
Sweetcron An open source, lifestreaming blog service with automatic inputs, installable on your server. (tags: Sweetcron lifestream blogging opensource PHP) Coding Horror: Designing For Evil I consider Craiglist a generally benevolent public service. Perhaps that's why I was so profoundly disturbed by John Nagle's wartime narrative of the raging battle between Craigslist and spammers. (tags: [...]
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  • About Gary Burge

    I am a graying web programmer, techno-activist, romantic idealist, who never quite left the sixties, even though I became quite successful in the Internet space.

    My business philosphy is different now than when I toiled in the bigco world. About a decade ago I experienced a life-altering epiphany: I was sacrificing my personal life and health to feed a corporate monster.

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