Recently I’ve been creating a lot of custom reports. You know the kind, sales reports, analytics reports, accountability reports. Reports that are rather boring, after all how do you make a table interesting. Why charts of course! For this I’ve been using Highcharts for hitting all the main points, it’s Free, jQuery compatible (heck, it’s jquery based), and well documented. So lets talk about charts. Continue reading “Creating Awesome JavaScript based charts with Highcharts”
Google Maps API 2: The second post. Multiple locations, Map styling, and the new geolocation.
Back into the fold with, This new post goes over the new way they want you to geocache (I wasn’t doing it quite to standard before and it no loner works) as well as all sorts of fancy things that I didn’t get a change to cover last time. Continue reading “Google Maps API 2: The second post. Multiple locations, Map styling, and the new geolocation.”
Ajax sites with real URL using history.pushState()
If your building a ajax based site then one of the problems you bound to come up on is how to handle pages. There common way to do this, the hastag (#), placing all the information you need to load the desired page after the tag and using the javascript window.location.hash to get it and process the request. This works great, I’ve used it myself before, but it does post 2 problems. Continue reading “Ajax sites with real URL using history.pushState()”