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Adding charts to your web applications with Google Charts

Friday, March 20th, 2009 at 15:33:04
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Adding charts to your web applications has become more easier than you think. Google Charts API is an excellent free tool that allows you to use almost every type of chart. It’s fast and easy to integrate in your applications. It’s very good documented making the getting used to it process fairly quick.

One of the best things about this API is that you don’t need a key you just type in your charts code and you are ready to go

I’m gone give you some basic examples below to get a feel of what it can do.

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Prevent media hotlinking with .htaccess

Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 00:34:59
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Hotlinking to media present on another domain is the practice of using files hosted on other people domains. Leeching other peoples bandwidth is not a nice thing to do, so if you find someone hotlinking media files from your site, you can stop it and regain control of your bandwidth consumption.

You need to edit your .htaccess file. You can even mess things up a little for them by setting a default media file that will be shown instead of the media file they would like to display.

Open your .htaccess (or create a new one), and add these lines:

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Website optimization with Google’s Ajax Libraries API

Sunday, February 15th, 2009 at 23:39:54
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Most of the javascript libraries files are more then 100KB in size which makes downloading them quite time consuming not to mention that your band width consumption will suffer.

In order to eliminate these problems you can use Google’s Ajax Libraries API. Google hosts these frequently used files, including the versions of popular javascript frameworks like jQuery MooTools, YUI, Dojo, Prototype, and more.

Here are some of the benefits for using Google’s Ajax Libraries API: