Category Archives: General

links for 2009-05-08

By Gary Burge | Published: May 8, 2009
James Smith • loopj.com » Blog Archive » jQuery Plugin: Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry This is a jQuery plugin to allow users to select multiple items from a predefined list, using autocompletion as they type to find each item. You may have seen a similar type of text entry when filling in the recipients field sending [...]
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links for 2009-05-06

By Gary Burge | Published: May 6, 2009
Live Streaming Video API StreamAPI is the easiest and most cost effective way to incorporate live streaming video into your website or application. (tags: StreamAPI Stickam video streaming libraries Flash) Developers: Never Mind the APIs, Here's YQL Execute – ReadWriteWeb Yahoo!, chiefly to serve the needs of its own engineers, has been developing a sophisticated solution that is agnostic [...]
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links for 2009-05-05

By Gary Burge | Published: May 5, 2009
MPs Expenses by Constituency (Sort Of…) « OUseful.Info, the blog… created another map that I didn’t post at the time, partly becuase it’s very approximate, but it does demonstrate something I haven’t logged on OUseful.info before – how to do overlays on Google maps… (tags: OUseful GoogleMaps overlays maps) Uxebu.com – JavaScript addicts » JSONP for Google spreadsheets Nikolai [...]
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links for 2009-05-01

By Gary Burge | Published: May 1, 2009
Handy tips to help you out | Think Vitamin Tips including geo-spatial calculations in MySQL. (tags: PHP MySQL geo spacial searches)
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links for 2009-04-27

By Gary Burge | Published: April 27, 2009
CiteDrag – Elijah Grey CiteDrag is a script for browsers supporting the standard drag and drop model like Firefox 3.1. What it does is add automatically citation (ie. blockquotes, text quotes, ect.) to any dragged content off of the website which is using the script. (tags: CiteDrag draganddrop browser FireFox) Plugins | jQuery Plugins Manipulate SVG documents from JavaScript. (tags: [...]
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links for 2009-04-26

By Gary Burge | Published: April 26, 2009
Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets « OUseful.Info, the blog… The Google spreadsheet function =importHTM(”",”table”,N) will scrape a table from an HMTL web page into a Google spreadsheet. The URL of the target web page, and the target table element both need to be in double quotes. The number N identifies the N’th table in the [...]
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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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