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Google Chart API: Generate Images of Charts

Google has a new tool (at least I haven’t come across it before) which allows you to generate PNG images of charts simply by providing a URL with certain parameters.

The Google Chart API allows you to generate a range of different graph styles; line charts, bar charts, pie …


Changing Your Wordpress Permalink Structure

There’s been a couple of times where I’ve wanted to alter the permalink structure of my Wordpress blogs after having the site running for a period of time.

The main issue here is to ensure that all links into your pages (most notably from search engines, …


Firefox 2 Out Now

Hot on the heels of Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla has released Firefox 2.

You can read more about the new features in FF2 in a previous post. Having used it for about a day now, the upgrade from 1.5.x seems pretty …


Firefox 2 Preview Available

The Mozilla Foundation has recently released a preview version of the next Firefox release - Firefox 2 RC2. Although it won’t be stable enough for the average user, if you’re happy enough to give it a go in its current state, it promises the following improvements, amongst others:

Built-in …


Regular Expression Resources

Regular Expressions (RegEx) are something that all web developers will need to use at some time or other (and if they use don’t use them, they probably should).

According to Wikipedia:
A regular expression (abbreviated as regexp or regex, with plural forms regexps, regexes, or regexen) is a string that describes or …


Tools For Administering MySQL

After having happily used phpMyAdmin for a few years, I was recently looking for something a little more robust to manage the MySQL databases on a variety of sites.

phpMyAdmin does have most of the features that I need in order to administer my databases on a day-to-day basis, …


My Firefox Extensions

Myself and little cuz Joe have recently started work on a new site for him (replacing the often neglected Homiesheaven), and along the way I seem to have finally converted him to the joys of Firefox.
“that was the quickest and easiest install EVER!.. How many tabs …