phpguru.org - Richard Heyes' ramblings and code

Pseudo radar chart

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:02:58 +0100

Can't remember exactly if I've blogged about this or not, but regardless, here is a pseudo HTML5 radar chart. Psuedo because it's not exactly like a typical radar chart, but still represents the data very well. The demo on this page illustrates very well browser market share.

Google calendar

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:18:47 +0100

Anyone use it? I just started to use it (my memory is pants because of my strokes so I need it) and my god it's good. It's ideal because I can access it wherever there's an Interweb connected computer and it also happens to be very good from a users perspective. If you're looking for a calendar app for either yourself or your company (you can share calendars between users - the only downside is that you've got the Google logo at the top - but it's not exactly invasive or ugly...) I would say it's well worth looking into. With it being hosted fully by Google themselves, setup time is virtually zero. Oh and it's free of course.

Planet MySQL

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:10:16 +0100

phpguru.org is now aggregated (?) by PlanetMySQL. MySQL users may want to have a look at: MySQL TableEditor, PHP Datagrid for MySQL and a (much) quicker drop in PEAR::DB replacement. Or you may not - your choice.

Updated HTML5 bar graph code

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:36:58 +0100

I've updated the HTML5 bar graph code. It's now OO (ie multiple instances are now feasible), and there's two examples. Bonza. Oh and it's not animated any more, but face it, that was just a "gizmo", (not a Mogwai...) and it wasn't really necessary.

HTML5 Scatter graph

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:43:25 +0100

Next in the HTML5 graph series is a scatter graph. This I'm not too sure about so if there are glaring errors, please let me know. If they're not glaring, then not to worry... :-)

CanvasText

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:21:41 +0100

Annoyed at the lack of text support in the new HTML5 canvas tag? Here's a library that allows you to draw text onto your canvas easily. It's work in progress and draws the text quite basically, but you can specify the x/y/size and obviously the text itself.

The Mist film

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:41:58 +0100

Out on the 4th July this is one film I intend to see. Having read the (Stephen King) book years ago and loved it this could be a fantastic film to see. IIRC, the story is there's a storm and various people end up in a store, and then an unending mist rolls in. The mist subsequently, they find, contains all sorts of weird but not so wonderful creatures who seem to have no issue at all with eating them. Mmmm, tasty. The book was great (though I'm not so taken with the ending), so the film has the potential to be superb. IIRC The Mist was part of The Skeleton Crew (a collection of Kings short stories) if you're interested.